DRZE comprehensively provides scientific information which is required for a qualified formation of opinion and judgment in the area of ethics in the life sciences and medicine. The main focus lies in the scientific preparation of the information. [Information of the supplier]
The President's Council on Bioethics is charged with advising the President of the United States on bioethical issues that may emerge as a consequence of advances in biomedical science and technology, such as embryo and stem cell research, assisted reproduction, cloning, enhancement of human capacities through genetics and the neurosciences, and end-of-life issues. ... [Information of the supplier, modified]
BATS Centre is a leading competence center studying the effects of biotechnology. The main application of biotechnology is in farming (green biotechnology) and medicine (red biotechnology). Looking forward, the BATS Centre analyses possible effects on economy, ecology and society.We are heading towards the following goals: that research objectives are adjusted to take account of sustainability, that society is informed of the social effects and can then decide which limits to place. ... [Information of the supplier]
Taxacom is "the" mailing list for biological systematics. Brought to life by Dr. Richard Zander, Taxacom began its peripatetic existence on the dark and snowy night of January 12, 1987 as a dial-up BBS at the Buffalo Museum of Science (Buffalo, New York). Subscription to Taxacom is free. To see the collection of prior postings to the list, visit the Taxacom Archives. ... [Information of the supplier, modified]
The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) led the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) contribution to the International Human Genome Project, which had as its primary goal the sequencing of the human genome. This project was successfully completed in April 2003. Now, the NHGRI's mission has expanded to encompass a broad range of studies aimed at understanding the structure and function of the human genome and its role in health and disease. To that end NHGRI supports the development of resources and technology that will accelerate genome research and its application to human health. A critical part of the NHGRI mission continues to be the study of the ethical, legal and social implications (ELSI) of genome research. NHGRI also supports the training of investigators and the dissemination of genome information to the public and to health professionals. ... [Information of the supplier]
“Biodiversity”, keyword in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP): From its inception, the SEP was designed so that each entry is maintained and kept up to date by an expert or group of experts in the field. All entries and substantive updates are refereed by the members of a distinguished Editorial Board before they are made public. Consequently, our dynamic reference work maintains academic standards while evolving and adapting in response to new research. ... [Information of the supplier, modified]
Synbiosafe is a scientific project supported fully by the EC-FP6 programme. It is the first project in Europe to research the safety and ethical aspects of synthetic biology, and aims to proactively stimulate a debate on these issues. [Information of the supplier]
The Hennig Society was founded in 1980 with the expressed purpose of promoting the field of Phylogenetic Systematics. Hennig's idea that groups of organisms, or taxa, should be recognized and formally named only in cases where they are evolutionarily real entities, that is "monophyletic", at first was controversial. It is now the prevailing approach to modern systematics. The Society has a strong international character meeting once a year. The journal Cladistics is the official publication of the Willi Hennig Society comprising a rich mixture of theortical and empirical peer-reviewed contributions to phylogenetic systematics. ... [Information of the supplier, modified]
As of February 2015, iDigBio (https://www.idigbio.org/) has ingested more than 25 million specimens and 4 million media objects from biodiversity collections with world-wide range. This great resource of biodiversity information has been made accessible not only through the iDigBio portal, but also through Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) that any application can consume since 2013. iDigBio is hosting a 3-day hackathon (June 3-5, 2015) in Gainesville, FL, to engage the community in developing applications that can facilitate biodiversity scientific workflows and information that use data, ingestion and search APIs. PhyloJIVE is an example of such tool that integrates biodiversity data with phylogeny by using the iDigBio search API to retrieve species and induced-trees API of OpenTree to generate a phylogenetic tree for those species. ... [Information of the supplier]
Call for Symposia: Please consider proposing a symposium for an upcoming SICB meeting! We are particularly interested in conceptually-themed symposia that integrate animal behavior with other areas of biology. - SICB fosters research, education, public awareness and understanding of living organisms from molecules and cells to ecology and evolution. SICB encourages interdisciplinary cooperative research that integrates across scales, and new models and methodologies to enhance research and education. ... [Information of the supplier, modified]