Iran nuclear deal raises hopes for science

Prenatal DNA test raises both hopes and worries.

nancy, Barbara Farlow discovered that her daughter Annie would be born with the genetic disorder trisomy 13, a chromosomal abnormality — and a label — that would determine her future medical care. In August 2005, Annie, not yet 3 months old, suffered a respiratory attack and was admitted to hospital. She died within 24 hours. The official cause was “complications of trisomy 13,” but Farlow and ...

small science , big hopes

A images of tumor cells being vaporized in beams of colorful light, a video produced by the National Cancer Institute proclaims, “the science is at our fingertips.” The science being referred to, which is 80,000 times smaller than the breadth of a single ridge of skin on a human fingertip, is cancer nanotechnology. Nanotechnology, the study of science on a level the width of ten hydrogen atoms,...

Research in Iran: Hopes and Disappointments

Richard Stone wrote a report regarding selling theses and research articles in Iran. There are noteworthy points in this report which truly disturb the Iranian scientific community, but the present report is not the whole truth about the Iranian scientific community. Iran's scientific infrastructure was destroyed in the eight-year imposed war by Saddam Hossein in a way that production of Irania...

National Science Foundation: Origins, hopes, and aspirations.

The origins of the National Science Foundation were in the visions of many scientists and federal statesmen during a decade of profound changes in the institutions of American science. But the concepts that underlie the Foundation reach back into the beginnings of our scientific endeavor in Colonial America; Franklin and Jefferson, scientists and statesmen, paved the way for close association b...

Science and change: hopes and dilemmas.