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Research summaries
I have been writing a variety of science briefs, research
and workshop summaries, and other copy for the National
Academies of Sciences, the Alliance for Aging Research, and other clients. Some of these
summaries include the following:
National Academies of Sciences
Frontiers in polar biology in a genomic era
Polar biological sciences stand poised on the threshold of a
revolution, one involving the application of genomic
sciences and other enabling technologies to address numerous
issues, many of which were unrecognized as little as a
decade ago. Whether studying the effects of global warming
or systematically prospecting for gene products useful to
human health, the era of genome-enabled biology allows us
many opportunities to attain a level of understanding about
fascinating biochemical processes never before possible.
Read more
Promise
and Challenges in Systems Microbiology
In 1674, in the Netherlands, Anton van
Leeuwenhoek placed a drop of pond water under a glass that
he had ground and saw a community of microorganisms never
before seen by humans.
Read more
Alliance for Aging Research:
Science in the Spotlight
Neurogenesis Plays Key Role in Learning
and Memory -- Salk Scientists Find
Not long ago, the suggestion that old brains could grow
new nerve cells -- or neurons -- was unthinkable among
neurologists. Today, however, we know that neural stem
cells are indeed capable of growing new neurons throughout
life . . . Precisely how nerve stem cells function and are
regulated, however, have remained something of a mystery
until recently.
Read more.
Personalized Medicine Takes a Bow
In 1953, an American biochemist and a
British physicist working together in Cambridge, England,
identified the structure of DNA, the molecule of life, which
passes genetic information from one generation to another.
This discovery has unleashed an explosion of knowledge over
the last half-century leading directly to the Human Genome
Project and to the promise of personalized medicine.
Read more.
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