A determined effort to break this silence and make it safer for biologists to discuss what they know about the genetics of human nature has now been begun by Dr. Steven Pinker, a psychologist of language at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Four focus groups were run with 24 postgraduate chemists, physicists and biologists to discuss their current practices.
To better understand the broad needs of the research community and prioritize development goals, a Working Group (http://www.maizegdb.org/working_group.php) made up of maize geneticists and computational biologists meets annually to discuss the MaizeGDB project's status and to suggest how to further develop the MaizeGDB resource.
Over the last few decades, social scientists, linguists and synthetic biologists themselves have begun to discuss the new meanings of life and the associated hopes and fears that are emerging, leading to a rise in interdisciplinary work between the social and natural sciences.
In 1975, the world's leading biologists also met at Asilomar to discuss the new ability to reshape life by swapping genetic material among organisms.
In 1975, when biologists met at Asilomar, California, to discuss the potential hazards of the new field of recombinant DNA technology, the group drew up voluntary guidelines to govern their research.
She emphasized that exact terms should be used in any discussion of the disorder...Late one evening, I called Laurence Lasky, a nationally renowned molecular biologist, to discuss my findings with him.
She suggested to Racanelli that he convene a summit of experts — among them, veterinarians, marine biologists, animal psychologists, and structural engineers — to discuss the risks and the complexities of a sanctuary.
In a story about mussel procreation, a top Dutch chef, a gynecologist, a biologist and numerous mussel farmers come all together to discuss the environmental dangers of sea bed farming, the mussel glue and its pretty looks on the plate.
Officials at the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection declined to discuss the case because its wildlife biologists did not investigate the attack.
