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A New Biology for the 21st Century: Ensuring the United States Leads the Coming Biology Revolution
Washington (DC): National Academies Press (US); 2009.
- PMID: 20662113
- Bookshelf ID: NBK32509
- DOI: 10.17226/12764
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A New Biology for the 21st Century: Ensuring the United States Leads the Coming Biology Revolution
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Integration of the biological sciences with physical and computational sciences, mathematics, and engineering promises to build a wider biological enterprise with the scope and expertise to address a broad range of scientific and societal problems. The following chapters will discuss why the life sciences are poised to tackle major challenges of the 21st century, describe why we reside at such an exceptional moment for the life sciences, and finally, provide recommendations for shaping investment in life science research.
Copyright © 2009, National Academy of Sciences.
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- The National Academies
- Committee on a New Biology for the 21st Century: Ensuring the United States Leads the Coming Biology Revolution
- Board on Life Sciences
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Summary
- Introduction
- 1. The New Biology’s Great Potential
- 2. How the New Biology Can Address Societal Challenges
- 3. Why Now?
- 4. Putting the New Biology to Work
- 5. Recommendations
- References
- Appendixes
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Grants and funding
This study was supported by the National Institutes of Health through Contract No. N01-OD-4-2139, Task Order 209; the National Science Foundation through Grant No. DBI-0843904; and by the Department of Energy.
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