Global Journal of Life Sciences and Biological Research

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Life Sciences ◽  
Biological Research

INDICATIONS OF PHYSIOLOGICAL AND PATHOPHYSIOLOGICAL RELEVANCE OF NOISE AND CHAOS

2004 ◽  
Vol 04 (01) ◽  
pp. L207-L217 ◽  
Author(s):  
HANS A. BRAUN ◽  
KARL VOIGT ◽  
J. CHRISTIAN KRIEG ◽  
MARTIN T. HUBER
Keyword(s):  
Systems Biology ◽  
Essential Role ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
Biological Research ◽  
Sensory Receptors ◽  
Noise Effects ◽  
Physiological Relevance ◽  
Physically Based ◽  
Modelling Studies ◽  
Peripheral Sensory

In recent years biophysical approaches have had particular impact on the progress in physiological and biological research. In systems biology such progress is often associated with the terms "noise" and "chaos". The introduction of these physically based concepts into life sciences has essentially been promoted by the work of Frank Moss and his group. This paper provides evidence of the physiological relevance of such biophysically based approaches with examples from quite different physiological and pathophysiological functions like temperature transduction in peripheral sensory receptors and the progression of mood disorders. We will use modelling studies, based on experimental and clinical data, to illustrate that both systems can attain specific dynamical states where chaos and/or noise plays an essential role and we will try to describe under which conditions functionally relevant noise effects or chaotic behaviour can be expected.

scholarly journals The biological sciences in India

2009 ◽  
Vol 184 (3) ◽  
pp. 342-353 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald D. Vale ◽  
Karen Dell
Keyword(s):  
Biological Sciences ◽  
Economic Growth ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
Biological Research ◽  
Faculty Support ◽  
Scientific Excellence ◽  
Current State ◽  
The Us ◽  
Future Growth

India is gearing up to become an international player in the life sciences, powered by its recent economic growth and a desire to add biotechnology to its portfolio. In this article, we present the history, current state, and projected future growth of biological research in India. To fulfill its aspirations, India's greatest challenge will be in educating, recruiting, and supporting its next generation of scientists. Such challenges are faced by the US/Europe, but are particularly acute in developing countries that are racing to achieve scientific excellence, perhaps faster than their present educational and faculty support systems will allow.

scholarly journals Biological research in Papua New Guinea: a publication activity analysis

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vojtech Novotny ◽  
Pagi S. Toko
Keyword(s):  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Web Of Science ◽  
Research Output ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Activity Analysis ◽  
Publication Activity ◽  
Biological Research ◽  
Publication Patterns ◽  
The Web

The Nature Index and the Web of Science databases are used to analyse the publication patterns in life sciences in Papua New Guinea, aiming to identify the ways of improving research output of the country.

scholarly journals Outlaw, hackers, victorian amateurs: diagnosing public participation in the life sciences today

2010 ◽  
Vol 09 (01) ◽  
pp. C03 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher M. Kelty
Keyword(s):  
Public Participation ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
Patient Advocacy ◽  
Biological Research ◽  
Clinical Genetics ◽  
Research And Innovation ◽  
At Home

This essay reflects on three figures that can be used to make sense of the changing nature of public participation in the life sciences today: outlaws, hackers and Victorian gentlemen. Occasioned by a symposium held at UCLA (Outlaw Biology: Public Participation in the Age of Big Bio), the essay introduces several different modes of participation (DIY Bio, Bio Art, At home clinical genetics, patient advocacy and others) and makes three points: 1) that public participation is first a problem of legitimacy, not legality or safety; 2) that public participation is itself enabled by and thrives on the infrastructure of mainstream biology; and 3) that we need a new set of concepts (other than inside/outside) for describing the nature of public participation in biological research and innovation today.

scholarly journals Reviewer Acknowledgements for Journal of Plant Studies, Vol. 6, No. 1

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 103
Author(s):  
Joan Lee
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
National Research Council ◽  
Biological Research ◽  
State University ◽  
University Of Virginia ◽  
Application Form ◽  
National Education ◽  
University Of Florence ◽  
University Of New Hampshire

Journal of Plant Studies wishes to acknowledge the following individuals for their assistance with peer review of manuscripts for this issue. Their help and contributions in maintaining the quality of the journal are greatly appreciated.Journal of Plant Studies is recruiting reviewers for the journal. If you are interested in becoming a reviewer, we welcome you to join us. Please find the application form and details at http://www.ccsenet.org/reviewer and e-mail the completed application form to [email protected] for Volume 6, Number 1Adriana F. Sestras, University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine, RomaniaAna Simonovic, Institute for Biological Research "Sinisa Stankovic", SerbiaArthur T. O. Melo, College of Life Sciences and Agriculture, University of New Hampshire, United StatesBing Wang, Iowa State University, United StatesChrystian Iezid Maia e Almeida Feres, Tocantins Federal University, BrazilHoma Mahmoodzadeh, Department of Biology, Mashhad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Mashhad, IranKinga Kostrakiewicz-Gieralt, Institute of Botany, Jagiellonian University, PolandKirandeep Kaur Mani, California seed and Plant Labs, Pleasant Grove, CA, United States of AmericaMalgorzata Pietrowska-Borek, Poznan University of Life Sciences, PolandMartina Pollastrini, University of Florence, ItalyMassimo Zacchini, National Research Council of Italy (CNR), ItalyMelekber Sulusoglu, Arslanbey Vocational School Kocaeli University, TurkeyMontaser Fawzy Abdel-Monaim, Plant Pathology Res. Instatute, Agric. Res. Center, EgyptPanagiotis Madesis, Institiute of Applied Biosciences (CE.R.T.H.)/INAB, GreecePeter R. Greene, BGKT Consulting Ltd. Huntington, New York 11743, United StatesRosana Noemi Malpassi, Universidad Nacional de Rio Cuarto, ArgentinaSaid Laarabi, University Mohammed V/Ministry of National Education, MoroccoSlawomir Borek, Adam Mickiewicz University, PolandSuheb Mohammed, University of Virginia, United StatesVikas Mishra, Paher University, IndiaXiaomin Wu, Loyola University Chicago, United StatesYa-Yi Huang, Institution of Plant and Microbial Biology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

Transferring Chemical Research to a Spin-off Initiative in Health Care: The Lipidomic Approach

2008 ◽  
Vol 22 (6) ◽  
pp. 403-409
Author(s):  
Carla Ferreri ◽  
Chryssostomos Chatgilialoglu ◽  
Rosaria Ferreri
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
Diagnostic Tools ◽  
Biological Research ◽  
National Council ◽  
Membrane Phospholipids ◽  
Chemical Research ◽  
Free Radical Stress ◽  
Medical Diagnostic ◽  
Living Organisms

Lipidomics is an emerging discipline in life sciences related to the lipid metabolism of living organisms. In the last decade chemical and biological research has attributed very important roles to membrane phospholipids in relationship to free radical stress and metabolic situations. An entrepreneurial initiative for diagnostic tools and health care products in the field of lipidomics started two years ago in Italy as a spin-off company of the National Council of Research. This paper presents an overview of the lipidomic approach applied in the company with regard to the metabolic and functional status of cell membranes, including the development of medical diagnostic tools and an innovative consultancy for nutraceutical companies. The authors also comment on the entrepreneurial experience of the Italian researchers.

scholarly journals How Does One “Open” Science? Questions of Value in Biological Research

2016 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 280-305 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadine Levin ◽  
Sabina Leonelli
Keyword(s):  
Life Sciences ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Open Science ◽  
Biological Research ◽  
Research Practice ◽  
Research Practices ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Semistructured Interviews ◽  
Key Questions ◽  
Science Policies

Open Science policies encourage researchers to disclose a wide range of outputs from their work, thus codifying openness as a specific set of research practices and guidelines that can be interpreted and applied consistently across disciplines and geographical settings. In this paper, we argue that this “one-size-fits-all” view of openness sidesteps key questions about the forms, implications, and goals of openness for research practice. We propose instead to interpret openness as a dynamic and highly situated mode of valuing the research process and its outputs, which encompasses economic as well as scientific, cultural, political, ethical, and social considerations. This interpretation creates a critical space for moving beyond the economic definitions of value embedded in the contemporary biosciences landscape and Open Science policies, and examining the diversity of interests and commitments that affect research practices in the life sciences. To illustrate these claims, we use three case studies that highlight the challenges surrounding decisions about how––and how best––to make things open. These cases, drawn from ethnographic engagement with Open Science debates and semistructured interviews carried out with UK-based biologists and bioinformaticians between 2013 and 2014, show how the enactment of openness reveals judgments about what constitutes a legitimate intellectual contribution, for whom, and with what implications.

scholarly journals An integrated, modular approach to data science education in microbiology

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. e1008661 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kimberly A. Dill-McFarland ◽  
Stephan G. König ◽  
Florent Mazel ◽  
David C. Oliver ◽  
Lisa M. McEwen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Data Science ◽  
High Throughput Sequencing ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Science Curriculum ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
Biological Research ◽  
Data Generation ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Cocurricular Activities ◽  
Public And Private Sector

We live in an increasingly data-driven world, where high-throughput sequencing and mass spectrometry platforms are transforming biology into an information science. This has shifted major challenges in biological research from data generation and processing to interpretation and knowledge translation. However, postsecondary training in bioinformatics, or more generally data science for life scientists, lags behind current demand. In particular, development of accessible, undergraduate data science curricula has the potential to improve research and learning outcomes as well as better prepare students in the life sciences to thrive in public and private sector careers. Here, we describe the Experiential Data science for Undergraduate Cross-Disciplinary Education (EDUCE) initiative, which aims to progressively build data science competency across several years of integrated practice. Through EDUCE, students complete data science modules integrated into required and elective courses augmented with coordinated cocurricular activities. The EDUCE initiative draws on a community of practice consisting of teaching assistants (TAs), postdocs, instructors, and research faculty from multiple disciplines to overcome several reported barriers to data science for life scientists, including instructor capacity, student prior knowledge, and relevance to discipline-specific problems. Preliminary survey results indicate that even a single module improves student self-reported interest and/or experience in bioinformatics and computer science. Thus, EDUCE provides a flexible and extensible active learning framework for integration of data science curriculum into undergraduate courses and programs across the life sciences.

Bioweapons and Dual-Use Research of Concern

2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 654-666 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nariyoshi Shinomiya ◽  
◽  
Masamichi Minehata ◽  
Malcolm Dando ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Recombinant Dna ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
Biological Weapons ◽  
Biological Research ◽  
Dual Use ◽  
Recombinant Dna Technology ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
Living Organisms ◽  
Responsibility Of Scientists

The Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) strictly prohibits State Parties from developing, producing, stockpiling or otherwise acquiring or retaining microbial and other biological agents that have no justification for peaceful purposes. At the time the convention was concluded, progress in the life sciences received little attention. Recent technological advances, especially in biotechnology, have brought attention, however, to the issue of dual-use research of concern (DURC). Dual-use research is defined as biological research with a legitimate scientific purpose that may, if misused, pose a biological threat to public health and/or national security. The most important and burdensome point of DURC is that we cannot escape the dual-use dilemma existing in all research activities. The DURC concept is an old but in a sense a new issue to be dealt with. Here we focus on the bioweapons and DURC – a subject that has received attention worldwide. In this review, we start with an overview of the historical development of bioweapons and then discuss their prohibition regimes focusing mainly on the BWC framework. Dramatic progress in biotechnology/recombinant DNA technology around the turn of the century brought a new experimental paradigm and affected the direction in which the life sciences should go. The Fink report and Lemon-Relman report have presented potential options for the healthy development of the life sciences. Exploring several important DURC case studies helps in understanding the nature of the dual-use dilemma more deeply. DURC in the area of the life sciences has been expanding broadly and has reached the neurosciences. Synthetic biology has introduced innovative approaches in creating novel living organisms. The convergence of chemistry and biology has become an inevitable stream in the recent development of the life sciences. Under these circumstances, the responsibility of scientists is becoming increasingly important. To deal appropriately with dual-use issues, risks and benefits must first be evaluated fairly and clearly, which makes the development of DURC evaluation methods an urgent issue. Both top-down approaches such as rules for smoothly processing of research, funding policies, and oversight mechanisms, and bottom-up approaches, i.e., researcher-oriented self-governance need to be mutually harmonized so that the life sciences may be applied more securely. The education of life scientists and the importance of outreach to society are also key means to success.

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