Sentences with phrase «national life sciences»

«The tremendous and increasing power of research tools related to the human genome are increasing the potential for genetic information related to individuals to be deployed for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes,» says Graham, the head of BLG's national life sciences group.

In a strategic bid to create a national life sciences powerhouse, Sweden committed $ 75 million in 2010 to create SciLifeLab, which was established by Uppsala University, Stockholm University, Karolinska Institutet, and the Royal Institute of Technology.

Within the scope of the collaboration, annual scientific meetings are arranged, giving the opportunity to create a unique and close network across the five sites, the national life science infrastructures, as well as the health care regions across the country.

«The ultimate goal is to strengthen the life science and molecular medicine sectors in Sweden by bringing together young talent, thereby creating unique and close collaborations across the universities, the Swedish national life science infrastructures, as well as the health care regions across the country.»

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Vice President Joe Biden on Monday announced a massive new national database that doctors, researchers, and life science companies could use to help develop a cure for cancer.

The National Venture Capital Association has reported that, in 2014, venture capital investment in the life sciences was at its highest level since 2008: in biotechnology, $ 6.0 billion was invested in 470 deals and, in life sciences overall, $ 8.6 billion in 789 deals (including biotechnology and medical devices).

The International Information fundamentally represents the dominance and penetration of the technocratic culture into the life of the peoples in the third World, either in the form of science and technology transfer, or in the form of economic development and coqercial advertisement, or in terms of the inculcation of military values such as national security doctrine and peace propagenda.

«Nationalism shows its character as a faith whenever national welfare or survival is regarded as the supreme end of life; whenever right and wrong are made dependent on the sovereign will of the nation, however determined; whenever religion and science, education and art, are valued by the measure of their contribution to national existence.»

The collaboration of Ms. Gerstner, a first - rate, professional journalist with a background in reporting on sports science, and Dr. Kutcher, one of the nation's top concussion researchers and clinicians who lives, breathes and eats concussions every day for a living as the National Director of The Sports Neurology Clinic at The CORE InstituteTM in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and for whom I and my staff at MomsTEAM have enormous respect, is a match made in publishing heaven.

Eschewing the extremes occupied by the loudest voices in the national concussion and youth sport conversation, the ones who either deny there is a serious issue that needs to be addressed (who they characterize as the «just a knock to the head» crowd) or have become so convinced that contact sports inevitably result in lifelong disability that they are so fundamentally unsafe that they should be abolished, they opt instead for the common sense middle ground - a place where MomsTEAM and I have been all along - a magical place where it is possible to have a «more thoughtful, science - based» dialog about the role of sports in our kids» lives.

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Robert E. Kelly, professor or political science at Pusan National University in South Korea, was interviewed live on the BBC World News this morning to talk about the president of South Korea having been forced out of office last night after a months - long corruption scandal.

Packs contain books from National Geographic Publishing on a variety of science and social studies topics including life science, earth and space science, government and more.

Michelle co-authored the chapter «Tree Squirrels: Narrators of Nature in Your Neighborhood» in the National Science Teachers Association publication Citizen Science: 15 Lessons that Bring Biology to Life with two of her Nature Museum colleagues.

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The 2017 edition of the National Science & Maths Quiz is sponsored by the Ghana Education Service through the Conference of Heads of Assisted Secondary Schools (CHASS) and supported by Tigo, GOIL, Prudential Life Insurance, Accra College of Medicine and GCB Bank.

The student who had dedicated her academic life to mathematics and never served on the student council went on to hold significant positions at the National Academies and at the National Science Foundation.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) first recognized the physics of living systems with its own program code in 2006.

The first phase of Sêr Cymru committed up to # 50 million (US$ 66.2 million) to bring prestigious research chairs to Welsh universities and also to support national research networks in three «grand challenge» areas: life sciences and health; low carbon, energy, and environment; and advanced engineering and materials.

Evolution: How We and All Living Things Came to Be by Daniel Loxton (2010); $ 18.95 at kidscanpress.com; ages 8 to 13 Eugenie Scott, executive director of the National Center for Science Education, touts this book as «an excellent introduction to a topic not frequently covered in children's books.

As a reviewer for the 2009 National Assessment of Educational Progress, Herrmann Abell critiqued physical science and life science assessment items for grades 4, 8, and 12.

Sarah Zielinski wanted to be a marine biologist when she was growing up, but after graduating from Cornell University with a B.A. in biology, and a stint at the National Science Foundation, she realized that she didn't want to spend her life studying just one area of science — she wanted to learn about it all and share that knowledge with the Science Foundation, she realized that she didn't want to spend her life studying just one area of science — she wanted to learn about it all and share that knowledge with the science — she wanted to learn about it all and share that knowledge with the public.

The National University of Singapore (NUS) recently concluded a deal with Singapore - based life science upstart Asia Pacific Genomics (AP Genomics), giving the company exclusive rights to exploit its proprietary type - specific dengue fever diagnostic primers.

To address this issue, we conducted a national study of scientific secrecy in academic genetics and the other life sciences.

Another initiative that Voytek oversaw was a program called the Ideas Lab on the Origins of Life, a collaboration with the National Science Foundation (NSF).

As part of the «National centre of Competence in Research — NCCR LIVES» funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, researchers at the University of Geneva (UNIGE) examined data from more than 24,000 people aged 50 to 96 living in 14 European countries.

A mentor is supposed to be not just a teacher but also an older guide to career, life, and whatever,» says Thomas von Foerster, a retired science publisher who is one among the many mentors at the Point Foundation, a national nonprofit organization that provides mentoring, scholarships, and leadership training for LGBT students in the humanities and sciences.

«Other researchers were skeptical about whether it is possible to make an accurate match between public records and individuals taking part in a life - long study, but New Zealand's national databases are very reliable and Dunedin Study members have given us great information for matching over the years,» said Terrie Moffitt, the Nannerl O. Keohane University Professor in Duke's departments of psychology & neuroscience and psychiatry & behavioral sciences.

The National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity has defined DURC as «life sciences research that, based on current understanding, can be reasonably anticipated to provide knowledge, information, products, or technologies that could be directly misapplied to pose a significant threat with broad potential consequences to public health and safety, agricultural crops and other plants, animals, the environment, materiel, or national securityNational Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity has defined DURC as «life sciences research that, based on current understanding, can be reasonably anticipated to provide knowledge, information, products, or technologies that could be directly misapplied to pose a significant threat with broad potential consequences to public health and safety, agricultural crops and other plants, animals, the environment, materiel, or national securitynational security».

In September, Thomas Insel, director of the US National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda, Maryland, announced that he would soon be joining Google's life - sciences company to help develop ways to apply technology in mental health.

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The substances in question were not considered damaging before as they were «generally thought to be too short - lived to reach the stratosphere in large quantities,» explains Oram, a research fellow of the UK's National Centre for Atmospheric Science.

Founded in 1976, Toyohashi University of Technology — one of Japan's most dynamic science - and engineering - based universities — is a vibrant, modern national institute with research activities reflecting the modern era of advanced electronics, engineering, and life sciences.

However, NASA's director of life sciences, Joan Vernik, says she is «perplexed» by the report and notes that the space - based crystallography program recently received glowing reviews from the National Institutes of Health.

She has received gold and silver awards in medicine and science writing from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education, and received the National Institutes of Health's Plain Language Award in 2009 for contributions to the NIGMS publication Computing Life.

The researchers used high - resolution X-ray computed tomography (CT) at the Museum's Microscopy and Imaging Facility, the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, and the Biomaterials Science Center of the University of Basel in Switzerland to scan the skulls of 21 felid specimens, including seven modern cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus) from distinct populations, a closely related extinct cheetah (Acinonyx pardinensis) that lived in the Pleistocene between about 2.6 million and 126,000 years ago, and more than a dozen other living felid species.

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But amid this governmental turmoil, another, longer - term development is under way that will affect the lives of everyone in the U.S. and take its toll on others around the world — the loss of critical expertise and capacity in the science agencies of the federal government, including the Environmental Protection Agency, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, among many others.

A bill requiring all National Science Foundation grants to pass a «national interest» test could hamper the sort of curiosity - driven research that «at first might have seemed esoteric and hardly in the public interest, but ultimately advanced human quality of life,» AAAS CEO Rush Holt writesNational Science Foundation grants to pass a «national interest» test could hamper the sort of curiosity - driven research that «at first might have seemed esoteric and hardly in the public interest, but ultimately advanced human quality of life,» AAAS CEO Rush Holt writesnational interest» test could hamper the sort of curiosity - driven research that «at first might have seemed esoteric and hardly in the public interest, but ultimately advanced human quality of life,» AAAS CEO Rush Holt writes in a...

The debate about ethics in bio and life sciences in Germany was refueled last week: While Germany's central research funding organization, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), decided to revise its position on human stem cell research, the German government is finally reacting to heated public debates about sensitive issues by establishing a National Ethics Commission.

The government should also convene a national summit to develop a new «health and life sciences action plan,» argues Bill Tholl, president and CEO of HealthCareCAN in Ottawa, the national federation of hospital and academic health care organizations.

The presidents and chancellors said they chose to begin their transparency initiative with life science because of considerable national concern about the field.

Dr. Kallioniemi was recently nominated as director of the Science for Life Laboratory, a national infrastructure for life sciences in StockhLife Laboratory, a national infrastructure for life sciences in Stockhlife sciences in Stockholm.

«Understanding the flow of sediment in rivers is important to the large number of people around the world who live near these waterways,» said Judy Skog, a program director for the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Coastal SEES (Science, Engineering and Education for Sustainability) program, which funded the research.

The massive projects needed now — such as devising a model of climate change detailed enough to be truly predictive or batteries efficient enough to compete with gasoline — can not wait or depend on chancy funding, he believes.He added that a strong national commitment to goal - centered basic science could help solve other important problems by drawing America's talented young people into scientific work and providing them with better opportunities for aspiring researchers to build careers with a realistic chance of making both a significant scientific contribution and a decent living.

(It's 10.60 % in the life sciences in 2016, down from 14.30 % in 2012, according to National Science Foundation figures quoted by the authors.)

«If you can cool the person rather than the building where they work or live, that will save energy,» said Yi Cui, an associate professor of materials science and engineering at Stanford University and of photon science at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, and the study's principal investigator.

The CASIS - sponsored hardware and life science investigations destined for the space station's national laboratory include the Bone Densitometer, which will be the first X-ray machine installed on the space station.

And even that amount may be low: NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the National Institute of Standards and Technology pay in the mid - to upper $ 40s, representatives noted, while Eli Lilly's Jean Labus said the Indiana drug company starts its life science postdocs at $ 42,000.