In planning health promotion interventions, theories from the behavioral sciences are applied to, first, understand behavior and, second, change behavior.
Recent systems biology efforts are starting to establish biology as a systems science wherein concepts borrowed from engineering and physical sciences are applied to describe biological systems using an input-output relationship based formalism [ 1- 7].
The centers brought researchers and clinicians under one roof, ensuring that basic science was applied to achieve medical results.
As I have explained in prior columns, this is partly an error in the way the science was applied, and partly in the way the results were interpreted.
After transfection with a miR-200a mimetic, cells were incubated in regular McCoy's 5A modified Medium growth medium (Biochrom) for 48 h and the WST-1 proliferation reagent (Roche Applied Science) was applied according to the manufacturer's recommendations.
SP: As the mindset of science is applied to other fields, the distinction is going to harder and harder to make.
investigation Tim's Vermeer (Sony, 12), in which head-spinning science is applied to determine – and replicate – the technique behind the uncannily lit paintings of Johannes Vermeer.
But since we're in a world ever more moulded by science, and where decisions on how science is applied shouldn't be made just by scientists, then that's a reason why one hopes the public will at least have enough feel for science for debates to get beyond just slogans.
Rigorous data science is applied to weed out discrepancies between reviewers' decisions and identify edge cases that don't fit the models.
The former explored how scientists contribute to public policy, why scientific advice carries such authority, and how government and the public can influence how science is applied.
