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Building and Measuring Community Resilience
The frequency and severity of disasters over the last few decades have presented unprecedented challenges for communities across the United States. In 2005, Hurricane Katrina …
Developing Norms for the Provision of Biological Laboratories in Low-Resource Contexts
On June 27-28, 2018, the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (the National Academies) convened an international workshop in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, …
Intentional Human Dosing Studies for EPA Regulatory Purposes
The EPA commissioned The National Academies to provide advice on the vexing question of whether and, if so, under what circumstances EPA should accept and consider intentional …
Beyond 'Fortress America'
The national security controls that regulate access to and export of science and technology are broken. As currently structured, many of these controls undermine our national and …
Mobilizing Science-Based Enterprises for Energy, Water, and Medicines in Nigeria
Developed in collaboration with the Nigerian Academy of Science, this report explores the ways in which science-based private enterprises can be created and encouraged in Nigeria …
Proceedings of a Workshop on Deterring Cyberattacks
In a world of increasing dependence on information technology, the prevention of cyberattacks on a nation's important computer and communications systems and networks is a problem …
STTR: An Assessment of the Small Business Technology Transfer Program
Today's knowledge economy is driven in large part by the nation's capacity to innovate. One of the defining features of the U.S. economy is a high level of entrepreneurial …
High-Impact Terrorism
In June 2001 the National Academies and the Russian Academy of Sciences held a bilateral workshop in Moscow on terrorism in a high--technology society and modern methods to prevent …
Positioning Synthetic Biology to Meet the Challenges of the 21st Century
Synthetic biology -- unlike any research discipline that precedes it -- has the potential to bypass the less predictable process of evolution to usher in a new and dynamic way of …
Biological Science and Biotechnology in Russia
In July 2005, the National Academies released the report Biological Science and Biotechnology in Russia: Controlling Diseases and Enhancing Security. The report offered a number of …
Potential Risks and Benefits of Gain-of-Function Research
On October 17, 2014, spurred by incidents at U.S. government laboratories that raised serious biosafety concerns, the United States government launched a one-year deliberative …
Electronic Scientific, Technical, and Medical Journal Publishing and Its Implications
This report is the proceedings of a 2003 symposium on "e;Electronic Scientific, Technical, and Medical Journal Publishing and Its Implications,"e; which brought together …