S&S: Technology
- The health risks of ARTScience & Society Series on Sex and Science
Science & Society Series on Sex and Science
Assisted reproductive technologies enable subfertile couples to have children. But there are health risks attached for both mothers and children that need to be properly understood and managed.
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- Educating the brainThe growing knowledge about how our brain works can inform educational programmes and approaches, in particular, for children with learning problems
The growing knowledge about how our brain works can inform educational programmes and approaches, in particular, for children with learning problems
- Katrin Weigmann1
Insights from neuroscience can help us understand what goes on in the brain when we learn. Such insights might have an impact on educational practice in schools and help design programmes for those with learning impairments.
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- Data‐driven hypotheses
- Paul van Helden1
Omics technologies and the large data sets they produce do not undermine hypothesis‐driven research. Rather, they help scientists formulate better and more relevant hypotheses to be put to the test.
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- Caught in the actFemtochemistry opens the lid on biology's third vital criterion
Femtochemistry opens the lid on biology's third vital criterion
- Philip Hunter1
Femtobiology freeze‐frames crucial split seconds of chemical reactions to investigate how enzymes function. The potential prize from this knowledge could be new avenues for drug development or ways to produce clean energy.
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- Does intelligence require a body?The growing discipline of embodied cognition suggests that to understand the world, we must experience the world
The growing discipline of embodied cognition suggests that to understand the world, we must experience the world
The new research field of embodied cognition aims to find out whether a mind needs a body to be able to think. The research is attracting psychologists, neurologists, artificial intelligence developers and robotics experts, all trying to understand the mystery of human intelligence.
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- Reproduction without sex: social and ethical implicationsScience & Society Series on Sex and Science
Science & Society Series on Sex and Science
- Thomas Baldwin1
For more than 30 years, in vitro fertilization has helped numerous couples to have children. Despite this success, some still object to the use of artificial reproductive technologies on moral and ethical grounds.
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- Equally potent?Does cellular reprogramming justify the abandonment of human embryonic stem cells?
Does cellular reprogramming justify the abandonment of human embryonic stem cells?
Induced pluripotent stem cells and our ability to transdifferentiate somatic cells might obviate the clinical use of embryonic stem cells in the future. Too many questions currently remain unanswered, however, to abandon embryonic stem cell research.
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- More than meets the eyeModern experimental techniques require increasingly sophisticated approaches to data visualization
Modern experimental techniques require increasingly sophisticated approaches to data visualization
Visualizing data can lead to new insights and understanding, but modern research is so complex that the old methods cannot cope. Researchers are developing visual spaces for representing huge quantities of data in a new way.
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- Integration in action
The workshop on ‘Integration in Biology and Biomedicine’ was held in May 2012 at the University of Sydney. It brought together scientists and philosophers to discuss the need for, and practice of, integration in the life sciences.
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- Where next for antibiotics?The immune system and the nature of pathogenicity are providing vital clues in the fight against antibiotic‐resistant bacteria
The immune system and the nature of pathogenicity are providing vital clues in the fight against antibiotic‐resistant bacteria
The prevalence of drug resistance in major pathogenic bacteria is an increasingly severe public health problem. In addition to looking for new antibiotics, researchers are focusing on the immune system and the nature of pathogenicity itself to devise new strategies for fighting infectious disease.
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