Author: Board on Life Sciences

Continuing advances in science and technology offer the promise of providing tools to meet global challenges in health, agriculture, the environmen...

Biomedical research data sets are becoming larger and more complex, and computing capabilities are expanding to enable transformative scientific re...

Concerted efforts to deepen understanding of RNA modifications and their role in living systems hold the potential to advance human health, improve...

The tremendous progress in biology over the last half century - from Watson and Crick's elucidation of the structure of DNA to today's astonishing,...

Select Agents are defined in regulations through a list of names of particularly dangerous known bacteria, viruses, toxins, and fungi. However, nat...

Does the public trust science? Scientists? Scientific organizations? What roles do trust and the lack of trust play in public debates about how sci...

During July 10-13, 2011, 68 participants from 32 countries gathered in Istanbul, Turkey for a workshop organized by the United States National Rese...

A great number of diverse microorganisms inhabit the human body and are collectively referred to as the human microbiome. Until recently, the role ...

To facilitate scientific progress and collaboration while also protecting personal privacy, the integrity of research investments, and national sec...