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For over a century, field stations have been important entryways for scientists to study and make important discoveries about the natural world. Th...

Since the 1980s, national and international planetary protection policies have sought to avoid contamination by terrestrial organisms that could co...

Microbial forensics is a scientific discipline dedicated to analyzing evidence from a bioterrorism act, biocrime, or inadvertent microorganism or t...

Stem cells offer tremendous promise for advancing health and medicine. Whether being used to replace damaged cells and organs or else by supporting...

During the last decade, national and international scientific organizations have become increasingly engaged in considering how to respond to the b...

The BioWatch program, funded and overseen by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), has three main elementssampling, analysis, and responseeach...

The Earth's population, currently 7.2 billion, is expected to rise at a rapid rate over the next 40 years. Current projections state that the Earth...

Climate change poses risks to human health and well-being through shifting weather patterns, increases in frequency and intensity of heat waves and...

The National Research Council's Roundtable on Public Interfaces of the Life Sciences held a 2-day workshop on January 15-16, 2015, in Washington, D...

The US Department of Defense (DOD) is faced with an overwhelming task in evaluating chemicals that could potentially pose a threat to its deployed ...

At the request of the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response, the National Academies convened a committee to examine lessons learne...

People's desire to understand the environments in which they live is a natural one. People spend most of their time in spaces and structures design...

Following the attacks of September 11, 2001 and the anthrax letters, the ability to detect biological threats as quickly as possible became a top p...

In 2016, the National Science Foundation (NSF) established a five-year program on Understanding the Rules of Life (URoL) to identify generalizable ...

The National Research Council (NRC) and National Academy of Engineering (NAE) have released a new report, Community Colleges in the Evolving STEM E...

Outbreaks of animal disease can have catastrophic repercussions for animal agriculture, the food supply, and public health. Rapid detection, diagno...

The field of quantum information science (QIS) has witnessed a dramatic rise in scientific research activities in the 21st century as excitement ha...

BioWatch is an air monitoring system deployed in jurisdictions around the country with the goal of detecting the presence of certain high risk path...

On October 17, 2014, spurred by incidents at U.S. government laboratories that raised serious biosafety concerns, the United States government laun...

A Research Strategy to Examine the Taxonomy of the Red Wolf provides independent guidance about taxonomic research on the red wolf, Canis rufus. B...

Scientists strive to develop clear rules for naming and grouping living organisms. But taxonomy, the scientific study of biological classification ...