Sequestration Cuts Take Effect
On 1 March 2013, federal budget cuts that—according to the White House and members of Congress—were not meant to happen, began. Sequestration—$85 billion in across-the-board budget cuts to nearly all federal agencies—was meant as a threat to force congressional action to reduce the federal budget deficit. For a year and half, lawmakers have bemoaned how terrible the impacts of sequestration would be. Yet, as the deadline approached for action, little effort was made to further delay or avert the spending reductions, which some have compared to using a meat cleaver instead of a scalpel to cut spendin...
Source: ActionBioscience - March 11, 2013 Category: Science Authors: Diane Bosnjak Source Type: news
Implementation Plan For the Network Integrated Biocollections Alliance
There are more than 1600 biological collections (biocollections) in the United States. Scientists have amassed, annotated, and curated in those collections more than one billion specimens. These...
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Source: ActionBioscience - March 11, 2013 Category: Biology Authors: Julie Palakovich Carr Source Type: news
Sequestration Cuts Take Effect
On 1 March 2013, federal budget cuts that—according to the White House and members of Congress—were not meant to happen, began. Sequestration—$85 billion in across-the-board budget...
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Source: ActionBioscience - March 11, 2013 Category: Biology Authors: Diane Bosnjak Source Type: news
Sequestration Cuts Take Effect
On 1 March 2013, federal budget cuts that—according to the White House and members of Congress—were not meant to happen, began. Sequestration—$85 billion in across-the-board budget cuts to nearly all federal agencies—was meant as a threat to force congressional action to reduce the federal budget deficit. For a year and half, lawmakers have bemoaned how terrible the impacts of sequestration would be. Yet, as the deadline approached for action, little effort was made to further delay or avert the spending reductions, which some have compared to using a meat cleaver instead of a scalpel to cut spendin...
Source: ActionBioscience - March 11, 2013 Category: Biology Authors: Diane Bosnjak Source Type: news
Opposition to Anti-Evolution Bill in Oklahoma
Senator John W. Ford
2300 N. Lincoln Blvd., Rm. 424A
Oklahoma City, OK 73105
Dear Senator Ford:
On behalf of the American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS), I write to urge your active opposition to SB 758, the “Oklahoma Science Education Act.” This legislation is bad for science and bad for science education and should not be enacted into law.
Scientists in Oklahoma are deeply concerned about this legislation and the negative message it sends to the rest of the country. The best and brightest scientists, whether working for a university, teaching in a K-12 classroom, or working for a private sector ...
Source: ActionBioscience - February 6, 2013 Category: Science Authors: Julie Palakovich Carr Source Type: news
Opposition to Anti-Evolution Bill in Oklahoma
Senator John W. Ford 2300 N. Lincoln Blvd., Rm. 424A Oklahoma City, OK 73105 Dear Senator Ford: On behalf of the American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS), I write to urge your active...
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Source: ActionBioscience - February 6, 2013 Category: Biology Authors: Julie Palakovich Carr Source Type: news
Genes and Civil Liberties
Genetic technologies provide a new arena for tensions between our cherished ideals of liberty, order, justice, and fairness. However, technologies are not designed to benefit all segments of society...
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Source: ActionBioscience - January 30, 2013 Category: Biology Authors: Ali Hochberg Source Type: news
Genes and Civil Liberties
Conclusion
Although human genetics research and development are usually presented as “advances,” they may also be setting back our civil liberties on many fronts. Chief among the downsides are increased numbers of widely-available databases that correlate many facets of people’s biology, lives, and activities, as well as increasing incidences of loss of privacy and discrimination. While federal legislation and administrative rules have begun to address these problems, private and governmental data mining grows rapidly as new technological formats are developed and a technological rationality (i.e., R...
Source: ActionBioscience - January 30, 2013 Category: Biology Authors: Ali Hochberg Source Type: news
Genes and Civil Liberties
Conclusion
Although human genetics research and development are usually presented as “advances,” they may also be setting back our civil liberties on many fronts. Chief among the downsides are increased numbers of widely-available databases that correlate many facets of people’s biology, lives, and activities, as well as increasing incidences of loss of privacy and discrimination. While federal legislation and administrative rules have begun to address these problems, private and governmental data mining grows rapidly as new technological formats are developed and a technological rationality (i.e., ̶...
Source: ActionBioscience - January 30, 2013 Category: Biology Authors: Ali Hochberg Source Type: news
Genes and Civil Liberties
Conclusion
Although human genetics research and development are usually presented as “advances,” they may also be setting back our civil liberties on many fronts. Chief among the downsides are increased numbers of widely-available databases that correlate many facets of people’s biology, lives, and activities, as well as increasing incidences of loss of privacy and discrimination. While federal legislation and administrative rules have begun to address these problems, private and governmental data mining grows rapidly as new technological formats are developed and a technological rationality (i.e., R...
Source: ActionBioscience - January 30, 2013 Category: Science Authors: Ali Hochberg Source Type: news
Stem Cells for Cell-Based Therapies
Stem cells can be obtained from several sources, including the reprogramming of adult differentiated cells to form embryonic stem cells (known as "induced pluripotent stem cells" or iPSC)....
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Source: ActionBioscience - December 28, 2012 Category: Biology Authors: Ali Hochberg Source Type: news
Stem Cells for Cell-Based Therapies
The world of stem cells
We know the human body comprises many cell types (e.g., blood cells, skin cells, cervical cells), but we often forget to appreciate that all of these different cell types arose from a single cell—the fertilized egg. A host of sequential, awe-inspiring events occur between the fertilization of an egg and the formation of a new individual:
Embryonic stem (ES) cells are also called totipotent cells.
The first steps involve making more cells by simple cell division: one cell becomes two cells; two cells become four cells, etc.
Each cell of early development is undifferentiated; that is, it is no...
Source: ActionBioscience - December 28, 2012 Category: Biology Authors: Ali Hochberg Source Type: news
Stem Cells for Cell-Based Therapies
The world of stem cells
We know the human body comprises many cell types (e.g., blood cells, skin cells, cervical cells), but we often forget to appreciate that all of these different cell types arose from a single cell—the fertilized egg. A host of sequential, awe-inspiring events occur between the fertilization of an egg and the formation of a new individual:
Embryonic stem (ES) cells are also called totipotent cells.
The first steps involve making more cells by simple cell division: one cell becomes two cells; two cells become four cells, etc.
Each cell of early development is undifferentiated; that is, it is...
Source: ActionBioscience - December 28, 2012 Category: Biology Authors: Ali Hochberg Source Type: news
AIBS Video Explains Implications of the Fiscal Cliff for Science
After a protracted and contentious election, our nation’s political leaders now face the daunting task of addressing the fiscal cliff. Unless lawmakers take action, the policies encompassed in...
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Source: ActionBioscience - December 11, 2012 Category: Biology Authors: Julie Palakovich Carr Source Type: news
