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Fingerprint identification: advances since the 2009 National Research Council report.

This paper will discuss the major developments in the area of fingerprint identification that followed the publication of the National Research Council (NRC, of the US National Academies of Sciences) report in 2009 entitled: Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States: A Path Forward. The report portrayed an image of a field of expertise used for decades without the necessary scientific...

National Health and Medical Research Council recommendations on diphtheria vaccination.

Toxigenic as well as non-toxigenic strains of Corynebacterium diphtheriae remain endemic in parts of Australia 2. The most important lesson to be learnt from recent outbreaks in the former Soviet Union, is that diphtheria recurs when community susceptibility increases and toxigenic organisms recirculate. In Australia many adults will now be susceptible, even if previously immunised, because of ...

Medical Research Council

What is it famous for? While being the main UK government's agency for funding biomedical research, it is probably best known for having nurtured British molecular biology in Cambridge in the golden decade of the 1950s — whence came the double helix model of DNA (James Watson and Francis Crick), the first amino-acid sequence of a protein (insulin, Fred Sanger), and the first three-dimensional p...

Medical Research Council

' Modern diagnosis and treatment make an increasing demand for methods by which the functional efficiency of organs or systems of the body may be objectively and quantitatively determined. It is important alike for the physician and for the surgeon to be able to assess the degree of impairment with which he has to deal. It may also be necessary to have means of measuring a disability for such p...