SAB NewsSAB Studies 3/11/2008 -- The Science Advisory Board's Video Contest! Here's your chance to present your favorite vendor to The SAB.... more>> 2/21/2008 -- Insights from a Recent SAB study Increase traffic of the “5 years of age and under set”... more>> 8/9/2005 -- True Confessions This study suggests that scientists are not convinced they always make the right decisions when it comes to selecting their jobs and experiments to perform... more>> 7/13/2005 -- Peer Review Revealed Critics suggest that some reviewers might be unqualified and others are biased due to personal or professional rivalries... more>> 6/14/2005 -- Heeding the Industrial Siren: $$$ Only 15% respondents to a recent Instant Poll believe that government scientists should not receive compensation for engaging in any activities sponsored by the pharmaceutical and/or biotechnology industry... more>> 4/12/2005 -- Scientist Heal Thyself? Scientists expect to retrieve medical advice quickly and on-demand, and this need for immediacy is best fulfilled via the Internet... more>> 3/23/2005 -- Scientists Take Stock of Their Ethics Scientists would rather error on the side of caution than risk suspicion ... more>> 2/28/2005 -- Improving Scientific Literacy 60% of those surveyed believe that countries will get the most return on their education tax dollars by supporting teacher-training programs... more>> 1/13/2005 -- Scientific Personality Assessment Featured in Science and Nature The Science Advisory Board's scientific personality test receives accolades... more>> 11/29/2004 -- Prevention – Bah! Humbug! Prevention gets short-changed when a health care system is under strain... more>> 11/15/2004 -- Challenges to Widespread Bioinformatics Adoption Despite its promise as an indispensable tool in today’s laboratory, many scientists have yet to fully embrace bioinformatics... more>> 11/2/2004 -- Radiation: Menace or Good Thing? The results of many investigations do not support the LNT theory calling into question whether it should abandoned for estimating low-dose radiation risks... more>> 10/20/2004 -- Scientists Frustrated with Limited Access to Full-Text Documents Scientists perceive their ability to access scientific and medical literature almost as an unalienable right of their profession... more>> 6/28/2004 -- Scientists, Not Politicians, Should Set Boundaries for Biodefense Research Interestingly, ethicists were selected over politicians by three to one as the next best-qualified professional to help determine a biodefense research agenda.... more>> 6/21/2004 -- How Rare is Rare? Many biomedical professionals were underestimating the prevalence of this disease family by five-fold.... more>> 6/1/2004 -- Scientists—Like the General Public—Overrate the Threat of Bioweapons Transforming biological agents into potent tools of destruction requires a tremendous amount of scientific expertise... more>> 5/17/2004 -- Health System Woes While many state and local health departments collect vast amounts of data, they often suffer from their inability to produce results-oriented information... more>> 5/3/2004 -- Online Healthcare Information: Searching for Quality and Convenience When polled, members of The Science Advisory Board would most like to receive drug information through an online service that manages their healthcare records. ... more>> 4/26/2004 -- Benefits of Data Sharing Data sharing is essential for efficiently translating basic research into the tools and technologies that can be used to guide new research directions... more>> 4/13/2004 -- The Promise of Gene-Specific Therapies RNAi’s therapeutic potential is far reaching and includes the treatment of viral infections, cancers and inherited genetic disorders... more>> 3/29/2004 -- Conservative Scientists Support Government Funding of Stem Cell Research The shared unity in the liberal and political viewpoints regarding this issue will make for more unified—and perhaps successful—lobbying efforts on behalf of scientists... more>> 3/23/2004 -- Imaging Experts Needed! The Science Advisory Board is gearing up to study the exciting developments occurring in the fields of biomedical imaging. ... more>> 3/8/2004 -- Patenting Pitfalls in Biomedical Research About one-third of scientists do not think their research is especially novel, another third do not believe their research has practical utility and the remaining third do not f... more>> 2/23/2004 -- Worldwide Technology Gap Concerns Scientists and Physicians Developed countries can assist most directly in the transfer of biomedical technologies to their developing neighbors by directly investing in the countries themselves... more>> 2/2/2004 -- Biomedical Trainees Deficient in Conflict Management Skills Repercussions such as unrealized potential, a disruptive work environment, mistakes and inattention to critical details can be extremely detrimental to research and clinical settings... more>> 1/5/2004 -- Geography Drives Distrust in the Medical Profession These Instant Poll participants would not support initiatives to recruit medical personnel from other countries to fill a staffing shortage in their own country... more>> 12/22/2003 -- Reputation Matters In One’s Publication Record The majority of biomedical professionals believe a journal’s impact factor is an essential consideration when building their body of work. ... more>> 12/8/2003 -- Outcome-Based Research Improves Health Care Quality Incorporating the patient’s perspective helps design the most successful types of interventions that will improve future health outcomes... more>> 11/24/2003 -- Efficient Structure Determination Requires a Multifaceted Approach This combination approach will be instrumental in ensuring more cost-effective drug development in the pharmaceutical industry... more>> 10/20/2003 -- Rational Drug Design Is Novel Members of The Science Advisory Board believe that the major advantage of rational drug design is that it can identify drugs that would not otherwise be discovered... more>> 9/30/2003 -- Scientists Mistakenly Believe Our DNA Is More Human Than It Is Only 18% of respondents accurately surmised that approximately one-half of the human genome is made up of transposable elements... more>> 9/2/2003 -- Researchers Come Clean When They Don’t Know the Answers Almost 2,000 individuals participated in an Instant Poll sponsored by The Science Advisory Board designed to assess whether one’s honesty or one’s ego was more important in the biomedical sciences.... more>> 8/11/2003 -- Plant-Based Vaccines are Safer than Traditional Vaccines Clearly, members of The Science Advisory Board are first and foremost impressed by the potential safety these new vaccines offer especially in light of the current concerns over new and emerging zoonoses... more>> 8/4/2003 -- Biomarkers Will Aid in Disease Diagnosis Identifying which patterns are associated with which diseases will empower patients and physicians by providing them with more options at earlier stages of the disease... more>> 7/29/2003 -- Site Satisfaction Survey Results: A Healthy Mix of Your Criticism and Praise Reflections from The Director of The Science Advisory Board... more>> 7/23/2003 -- “Another Conversation with an Expert” On July 15, 2003, Dr. Tamara Zemlo, Director, Scientific & Medical Communications, Dr. Jim Brady, Senior Science Analyst, and Dr. Robin Rothrock, The Scientific Program Director, of The Science Advisory Board led a discussion with an expert in the field of TMA... more>> 7/21/2003 -- Keep the Ads “Back” Where they Belong! Science Advisory Board members don’t appreciate being distracted by advertisements... more>> 7/8/2003 -- St. John’s Wort’s Healing Reputation Is Upheld Despite the fact that the herb’s mechanism of action is not well understood, there is some scientific evidence that St. John's wort is useful for treating mild to moderate depression... more>> 7/2/2003 -- A Conversation with an Expert On June 24, 2003, Dr. Tamara Zemlo, Director, Scientific & Medical Communications, Dr. Jim Brady, Senior Science Analyst. and Matt Scherer, Science Analyst of The Science Advisory Board led a discussion with an expert in the field of microbial genotyping. ... more>> 6/30/2003 -- Life Scientists and Medical Professionals Are Staying Put Could it be because recent economic woes are making job openings few and far between? ... more>> 6/24/2003 -- Scientists Call for No Restrictions on Length of Postdoctoral Fellowships There is speculation that newly minted Ph.D.s are stretching out their postdoctoral fellowships to mark time while waiting for permanent employment... more>> 6/24/2003 -- SAB Members Divided As to Whether to Share Scarce Academic Resources with Industry There was general consensus that these archives are an exceptional collection of specimens and are therefore quite precious... more>> 6/18/2003 -- The SAB's Snapshot Live Teleconference on Cytokines and Growth Factors On June 11, 2003, members of The Scientific Advisory Board participated in another successful Snapshots Live teleconference... more>> 6/16/2003 -- Scientists Recommend Precautions for Safer Air Travel Even more than the threat of terrorism, the emergence of such zoonoses as SARS and now monkeypox jeopardize the viability of the airline industry... more>> 6/3/2003 -- One Step Closer to Conquering Cancer A new technology, the tissue microarray, is providing scientists with a powerful weapon in the war against cancer according to The Science Advisory Board.... more>> 5/21/2003 -- Is Global Scientific Cooperation Possible? Collaboration is one avenue for effectively confronting the scientific funding and technology transfer... more>> 5/19/2003 -- Sell What You Know = Know What You Sell Nothing can replace old-fashioned know-how with the tools and technologies of one’s scientific discipline... more>> 5/19/2003 -- SAB Members Predict Future Cytokine-Based Therapies While the majority of researchers believe that cancer will prove to be the most receptive disease target... more>> 5/7/2003 -- Global Security is Being Undermined by Microbes Strengthening the public health infrastructure would help to ensure overall security by preventing the spread of infectious diseases and enabling a quick response to bioterrorism... more>> 4/30/2003 -- Cancer Treatment Hopefuls: Cytokine Cures To supplement a recent in-depth study on cytokines and growth factors conducted by The Science Advisory Board, members were asked how cytokines might most effectively be used to treat cancer... more>> 4/22/2003 -- Living Safer, Healthier Lives Through Toxicogenomics Elucidating the mechanisms by which genes influence one’s response to environmental toxins depends upon sophisticated genomic and proteomic approaches... more>> 12/4/2002 -- Science Advisory Board Members Value Selection Over Price This preference for a wide product selection points to an increasing trend in the life sciences: discriminating, well-informed consumers... more>> 11/27/2002 -- Presentation Pet Peeves Professional presentations are one of the most important communication forums in the scientific and medical community... more>> 11/22/2002 -- Emphasizing Fundamental Science in Medical Training Striking a balance between understanding basic science knowledge and applying it in the treatment of sickness and disease will be what distinguishes graduates from forward-thinking medical schools in the 21st century... more>> 11/14/2002 -- Increasing Specialization of Biological Disciplines Makes Addressing Multidisciplinary Research Questions Difficult Sixty-percent of the 902 respondents to a Science Advisory Board Instant Poll believe that biologists are loosing track of the big picture by specializing in narrowly defined biological fields... more>> 11/7/2002 -- The Science Advisory Board Recommends Eliminating Health Services at Academic Medical Centers Academic medical centers provide exceptional acute care, train tomorrow's physicians, and conduct cutting edge research... more>> 11/5/2002 -- “What’s in it for me?” The Pros and Cons of Belonging to a Professional Society Members of The Science Advisory Board speak candidly about belonging to professional societies: what they like, what they don’t like and how they think societies can be improved... more>> 11/5/2002 -- Is Free Thinking Possible in The Pharmaceutical Industry? Science Advisory Board members voice their opinions about the degree of autonomy afforded by industry versus academia in an article written by Dr. Tamara Zemlo, Director of The Science Advisory Board, for the publication, Pharmaceutical Executive... more>> 10/31/2002 -- Medical and Life Science Professionals Are Squeamish About Biotech Art Artists interested in adopting cutting-edge research are pushing the aesthetic and technical limits of existing technologies according to a poll conducted by the Science Advisory Board... more>> 10/24/2002 -- Biomedical Community Advocates Conservation Rather Than Biotechnology During Plant Biotechnology Week at The Science Advisory Board, members were asked their opinions as to the best strategy to combat agricultural pests in an online survey... more>> 10/18/2002 -- Heart Disease is the Most Dreaded Aging Disease Aging is influenced by both genetic and environmental factors including life style, food preferences, physical activity, and diseases... more>> 10/10/2002 -- Faith in Technology Drives Biomedical Research and Medical Care “The biomedical community strongly embraces the conviction that we will succeed in precisely controlling nature through technology,” explains Dr. Tamara Zemlo, Director of Scientific & Medical Communications at The Science Advisory Board... more>> 9/19/2002 -- Lifestyle Tops List as Number One Non-Genetic Culprit in Disease Susceptibility By identifying and characterizing gene-environment interactions, there is a greater opportunity to effectively target intervention strategies to prevent or treat these diseases... more>> 8/29/2002 -- Researchers Find Justifying Their Work to the Public Challenging When it comes to allocating money for research, politicians are very much tied to public opinion... more>> 8/16/2002 -- Challenging the Traditional Role of Teaching at Our Universities Science Advisory Board members strongly support the development of undergraduate science curricula that enables students to retrieve, analyze and re-organize information in ways that will spur new insights... more>> 7/31/2002 -- Science Advisory Board Members' Perspectives on the Tools & Techniques of Drug Discovery The Science Advisory Board is proud to release its latest report, “The Tools and Techniques of Drug Discovery: Benchmarking,”... more>> 7/24/2002 -- Scientific Misconduct: Bad, Worse and Worst Making up data (i.e., fabrication), altering or misrepresenting results (i.e., falsification) and misappropriating another’s ideas or words (i.e., plagiarism) are considered to be errors of deception in the scientific community. ... more>> 7/10/2002 -- Transporting Telemedicine into the Twenty-First Century Given the potential for telemedicine to provide needed medical care to underserved populations, The Science Advisory Board was interested in exploring possible limitations to its success. ... more>> 6/21/2002 -- Pharmacovigilance: Ensuring Drug Safety Through Regulation The Science Advisory Board examined the role that government regulatory agencies, pharmaceutical companies and physicians should play in maintaining pharmacovigilance.... more>> 6/13/2002 -- Using Epidemiology as a Tool to a Healthier You Given the increasing prominence, however of such disciplines as genetic epidemiology, the Science Advisory Board was interested in examining where epidemiology will have the most impact in the 21st century.... more>> 6/6/2002 -- Medical Advice: How Good Is It? In era of rising health care costs and concerns over the future feasibility of medical insurance, The Science Advisory Board was interested in its members’ opinions about evidence-based medicine. ... more>> 5/23/2002 -- Diversifying the Portfolio: Obtaining a Ph.D. with Options The Science Advisory Board examines graduate education... more>> 5/17/2002 -- Better Safe Than Sorry: Treat It Now – and Then Later! Science Advisory Board members recognize the importance of eliminating disease-causing microbes during the growth, production, packaging and shipping phases of a product’s life cycle... more>> 5/1/2002 -- Pathways to Success: An Examination of Career-Enhancing Decisions in the Scientific and Medical Professions The Science Advisory Board is proud to release its latest report, “Motivations for Publishing and Presenting in the Life Science and Medical Professions,” ... more>> 4/24/2002 -- Technology Licensing Offices: Money, Money, Misunderstood, Money The primary role of technology licensing offices at universities is to facilitate the identification and protection of commercially significant technologies arising from academic research activities... more>> 4/10/2002 -- The Scientist’s Lament: I Want It My Way! While a career in Big Pharma offers more than just good salary and benefits, many young scientists are unprepared for the career adjustment problems ... more>> 3/28/2002 -- E-Journals: Wired for Speed! With its ability to transfer data files, images, graphics and text to personal computers around the world almost instantaneously, the Internet has challenged the traditional paradigms of the publishing industry... more>> 3/21/2002 -- Lack of Critical Thinking Skills Jeopardize Public Understanding of Science To educated people, pseudoscience frequently seems too silly and ridiculous to be dangerous and is greeted with amusement rather than apprehension... more>> 3/14/2002 -- Chimp Champs Vote for Next Genome Sequencing Project The U.S. government's large-scale sequencing projects currently include finishing the human sequence and decoding both the mouse and rat genomes... more>> 3/7/2002 -- Human Genome Access: How Really Free is Free? In the post-genomic era, researchers are now faced with the question of how to extract useful information from the 3 billion chemical base pairs that make up human DNA... more>> 3/1/2002 -- Good Things Really Do Come in Small Packages Nanobiotechnology is the application of nano- and micro-fabrication methods to build tools for discovering the secrets of biological systems... more>> 2/7/2002 -- Quality and Reliability are "Must Haves" When Buying Used Lab Instruments The Science Advisory Board polled its members about the most important factor influencing their decision whether to purchase a second-hand instrument for their laboratory... more>> 1/24/2002 -- Career Path Survey: Assessing Productivity Measures As a benefit to our members, we have designed a unique mini-survey that will examine workplace productivity and career path progress... more>> 1/24/2002 -- Scientists Support Embryonic Stem Cell-Based Therapies Derived from Therapeutic Cloning Rather than Parthenogenesis The tremendous potential of stem cells to contribute to the development of new therapies for the most devastating diseases has led to the pursuit of multiple avenues of promising research in recent years... more>> 12/21/2001 -- Scientists in Favor of Governmentally Regulated Criminal Background Checks and Accreditation of Researchers As the United States Congress debates the Deadly Biological Agent Control Act of 2001... more>> SAB Members See No Ethical Dilemma in Developing Pig Organs for Human Transplantation The shortage of human organs available for transplantation has led scientists to explore the possibility of xenotransplantation (animal-to-human transplantation) as an alternative source of tissues and organs for treating many diseases... more>> SAB Support Developing Diagnostics to Fight Bioterrorism In addition to meeting the continuing threat of new and reemerging infectious diseases, public health officials must also prepare for the possible use of infectious agents as... more>> Stem Cell Culture Products and Related Technologies Study The Science Advisory Board is developing a study to explore the cell culture needs of stem cell researchers... more>> Study on Protein Science and Proteomics As science explores the new frontier of large-scale protein expression and protein function, the secrets to understanding the complex biology of living systems will begin to be revealed... more>> Scientific & Medical Journals on the Web (2001) The study on Scientific and Medical Journals on the Web has been completed... more>> [ Back to SAB News Home ] |
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