This series of public lectures will describe
how biomedical research has increased our understanding of human health and disease.
It was also at NCI that I experienced first hand
how biomedical research can have an impact on the political and economic well being of a country: I worked with Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland in using the framework of cancer research as a vehicle to close a political divide.
The project has been a highly collaborative one, says Vunjak - Novakovic, whose team included three biomedical engineers, a lung transplant surgeon, and a pulmonologist: «This study is truly emblematic of
how biomedical research is conducted at Columbia University.»
As economists and others explore
how biomedical research is shifting on a grand scale, Science set out to tell the stories of individuals.
Not exact matches
Evolution was not correctly taught if you believe that it is a belief or a mere theory in the colloquial sense, that it unnecessarily complicates the world, and that understanding
how organisms change over time is not crucial for environmental policy, agriculture and
biomedical research.
Also unclear is
how much autonomy the
research councils will keep and whether UKRI will increase the emphasis on
biomedical research and the
research - intensive southeast.
Jim Woodgett of the Lunenfeld - Tanenbaum
Research Institute at Toronto, Canada's Mount Sinai Hospital has been leading an effort to change how Canada's leading biomedical research funder does b
Research Institute at Toronto, Canada's Mount Sinai Hospital has been leading an effort to change
how Canada's leading
biomedical research funder does b
research funder does business.
Jim Collins, a
biomedical engineer from Boston University not involved in the study, is interested in
how the
research expands the capabilities of genetic engineering.
A new study involving The University of Queensland, which might be useful for
biomedical research, re-writes parts of the rulebook on
how mammalian brains — including our own — could have evolved.
A major scientific society has sent a letter to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) requesting a meeting of
biomedical publishers to discuss whether and
how to publish
research that might be co-opted by bioterrorists.
Others take the «personal» in personal statement too literally and recount, in excruciating detail,
how, for example, a family member's cancer diagnosis turned into motivation to pursue a degree in
biomedical research.
«Developments in
biomedical technologies are accelerating rapidly, raising new societal debates about
how we will use these technologies and what uses are appropriate,» said lead author Cary Funk, an Associate Director of
Research at Pew
Research Center.
So
how are these huge shifts in the
research firmament — multidisciplinarity, translational research, and commercialization — affecting one of the largest funders of basic biomedical science in the country, Cancer Rese
research firmament — multidisciplinarity, translational
research, and commercialization — affecting one of the largest funders of basic biomedical science in the country, Cancer Rese
research, and commercialization — affecting one of the largest funders of basic
biomedical science in the country, Cancer
ResearchResearch UK?
► «[A] novel analysis finding a link between
how U.S. graduate students in the
biomedical sciences are funded and their first job after earning their Ph.D. turns one piece of conventional wisdom on its head: Students supported on a
research grant are more likely to take a
research job than those funded by other mechanisms,» including training grants and individual fellowships, Jeffrey Mervis wrote today.
Now comes a first rate example of
how CRISPR is changing the pace of
biomedical research by linking up with another cutting edge technology — human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs).
Group asked to recommend
how to ensure that talented students are drawn into
biomedical research careers
«This work is an example of
how integrating basic science and clinical care may reveal privileged opportunities for
biomedical research,» said Matthew O. Hebb, M.D., Ph.D., FRCSC, a researcher involved in the work from the Departments of Clinical Neurological Sciences (Neurosurgery), Oncology and Otolaryngology at the University of Western Ontario in Ontario, Canada.
Yancy, chief of cardiology at Northwestern University's medical school and a former president of the American Heart Association, is leading a new NIH - sponsored study into
how the agency might improve the pool of talent going into
biomedical research.
ORI director Chris Pascal says his office has received several favorable comments about the new grants program and that 70 scientists interested in the topic showed up last month for an ORI workshop on
how to apply for
biomedical research grants.
«This study opens an entirely new area of discovery for many aspects of cell biology and
biomedical research —
how cancer cells metastasize, for example — and provides many new therapeutic targets,» said senior author Jack Dixon, PhD, professor in the UC San Diego School of Medicine and associate vice chancellor of Scientific Affairs.
Another recommendation of the
biomedical research workforce report was to understand better
how different types of support — including having an individual fellowship, being on an institutional training grant, or being supported on a PI's
research grant — track in terms of
research productivity or future career path and success.
It also aims to elucidate the links between aging, longevity and radioresistance, and the ways in which
research into enhancing human radioresistance could synergistically enable human healthspan extension, ultimately highlighting how ongoing research into the very well - funded sphere of aerospace research could galvinate progress in biomedical gerontology, a massively under - funded area of research despite the grave economic burden posed by demographic aging» said Franco Cortese, an author of the paper and Deputy Director of the Biogerontology Research Fou
research into enhancing human radioresistance could synergistically enable human healthspan extension, ultimately highlighting
how ongoing
research into the very well - funded sphere of aerospace research could galvinate progress in biomedical gerontology, a massively under - funded area of research despite the grave economic burden posed by demographic aging» said Franco Cortese, an author of the paper and Deputy Director of the Biogerontology Research Fou
research into the very well - funded sphere of aerospace
research could galvinate progress in biomedical gerontology, a massively under - funded area of research despite the grave economic burden posed by demographic aging» said Franco Cortese, an author of the paper and Deputy Director of the Biogerontology Research Fou
research could galvinate progress in
biomedical gerontology, a massively under - funded area of
research despite the grave economic burden posed by demographic aging» said Franco Cortese, an author of the paper and Deputy Director of the Biogerontology Research Fou
research despite the grave economic burden posed by demographic aging» said Franco Cortese, an author of the paper and Deputy Director of the Biogerontology
Research Fou
Research Foundation.
Knowing that rats» faces can tell another rat
how they're feeling will of course lead to more questions about using the rodents — or other animals — in
biomedical research.
After weeks of worrying about
how the mandatory across - the - board 2013 budget cuts known as the sequester would play out at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the
biomedical research community now has final figures.
However, critics are already asking
how the government can expand health care coverage to all Americans, cut costs, and improve
biomedical research, all at the same time.
Varmus noted
how the labs make little - recognized contributions to
biomedical research.
«All the NIH can do is call attention to these problems and
how important this group of individuals is to the future of
biomedical research,» Ginsburg said.
The discovery could help scientists understand
how social, cultural, and environmental factors interact with genetics to create differences in health outcomes between different ethnic populations, the authors say, and provides a counterpoint to long - standing efforts in the
biomedical research community to replace imprecise racial and ethnic categorization with genetic tests to determine ancestry.
Ethical and racial issues in medicine and
biomedical research are among the facets of Skloot's spellbinding story of Henrietta Lacks, the HeLa lineage cultured from her cancer, and
how that legacy affected her family.
Specifically this Notice: 1) develops principles based on 20 years» experience of providing instruction in responsible conduct of
research by the scientific
research community; 2) is more specific about who should participate,
how often instruction should occur, and the form that instruction should take; 3) addresses issues that have arisen as the practice of
biomedical, behavioral and clinical science has evolved; and 4) provides guidance to applicants, peer reviewers and NIH staff in determining
how well specific plans for instruction in responsible conduct of
research compare with the best practices accumulated over the past two decades by the
research training community.
This is a practical course in Bioinformatics, which will emphasize
how to use the computer as a tool for
biomedical research.
Good practices: use of mouse models for
biomedical and scientific
research Would you like to learn
how to choose, create and analyze your best mouse model?
Three
research assistants at the MDI Biological Laboratory talk about about
how Maine INBRE helped foster their careers, and about what the opportunity to work in
biomedical research in their home state means to them.
They mostly come from the world of
biomedical research, and it's easiest to see
how their strategy could work in that community.
This year the organizers overtly recognized the history of our
biomedical research niche in which C. elegans nematodes are used as a model organism (see our SAGE blog on
how C. elegans models are used to study aging).
Kristen Meyer, a science major specializing in chemistry, received the award based on her
research with fungi and
how her undergraduate work will support her long - term commitment to
biomedical research and the development of novel organic compounds including antibiotics.
Pritzker, a University board trustee, organized the dinner meeting to boost corporate awareness of big - data
biomedical research and to discuss
how this work could become a regional economic engine.
More than 100 scientists, animal welfare officers, representatives of advocacy groups and stakeholders from different countries met for a 2 - day conference in San Francisco to discuss
how to improve transparency and to increase the public understanding of the essential contributions that animal
research makes to modern life science and
biomedical research.
See examples of
how public investment in
biomedical research can advance science and benefit human health.
Our extensive US and international collaborations allow the trainee to experience
how modern
biomedical research is conducted.
The ASBMB Public Affairs Advisory Committee launches an essay series to explore
how to make the U.S.
biomedical research enterprise more effective and sustainable.
The Ellison Medical Foundation supports basic
biomedical research, with a current focus on understanding
how humans and other organisms age, and on defining the fundamental biological mechanisms that prevent age - related diseases and disabilities.
This session addresses what phenotype means in different contexts, the impact of
how the phenotype is collected, and why phenotypes are integral to
biomedical research and clinical practice.
Notably, HAH will also provide a critical platform for transparency, education and open dialogue with the
biomedical research community about the contributions of study animals to human and animal health, and
how they are cared for in
research settings.
Although it might be possible to rewrite the first sentence using the synonym «attraction», this alternative fails to capture the precise meaning conveyed by the original sentence, given
how the term is used in this area of
biomedical research.