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The science of life

Computer Physics Communications, 2002
The advent of powerful computers and algorithms combined with new, powerful ways of thinking about problems in statistical physics has created an unprecedented opportunity for making significant breakthroughs in a variety of interdisciplinary problems, most notably in the life sciences.
J. R. BANAVAR, MARITAN, AMOS
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The Science of Meaning in Life

Annual Review of Psychology, 2021
Meaning in life has long been a mystery of human existence. In this review, we seek to demystify this construct. Focusing on the subjective experience of meaning in life, we review how it has been measured and briefly describe its correlates. Then we review evidence that meaning in life, for all its mystery, is a rather commonplace experience. We then
Laura A, King, Joshua A, Hicks
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A Life in Science

Science, 2000
H. Gobind Khorana was born in 1922 in Raipur, Punjab, India (now Pakistan). He trained as an organic chemist, and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1968, together with Robert W. Holley and Marshall W. Nirenberg, "for their interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis." In this essay, Khorana recounts ...
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Life Sciences' Stewardship of Science

Science, 1999
P ublic support for U.S. federal expenditures for basic research gained momentum with the science and technology breakthroughs that contributed to the Allies' victory in World War II. After World War II, the Korean and Cold Wars concentrated research appropriations in the Department of Defense (DOD).
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The Good Life and the Life Sciences

Politics and the Life Sciences, 1988
Arnhart's “Aristotle's Biopolitics: A Defense of Biological Teleology against Biological Nihilism” is both a valuable and yet at the same time a problematic study. Its value for political science lies in Arnhart's reminder that for many of the most important thinkers in the history of Western political thought their efforts to discover and articulate ...
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A Joy for (the Science of) Life!

Physiology, 2014
Just a few weeks ago (at the time of writing), two of us (Kim and Patricia) participated in the first-ever Pan American Congress of Physiological Sciences, “Physiology Without Borders,” which was held in Iguassu Falls, Brazil, from August 2 to 6, 2014. Iguassu Falls is a very special place,
Kim E, Barrett, Patricia E, Molina, David M, Pollock   +2 more
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Life sciences on the Moon

Advances in Space Research, 1996
Abstract Despite of the fact that the lunar environment lacks essential prerequisites for supporting life, lunar missions offer new and promising opportunities to the life sciences community. Among the disciplines of interest are exobiology, radiation biology, ecology and human physiology.
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Science and the sanctity of life

1996
Abstract I do not intend to deny that the advance of science may some times have consequences that endanger, if not life itself, then the quality of life or our self-respect as human beings (for it is in this wider sense that I think ‘sanctity’ should be construed).
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Crystallography in the life sciences

Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations of Crystallography, 1987
Modern crystallographic techniques and computer graphics are surveyed as applied to the determination of the structures of large molecules of biological importance, such as DNA-binding proteins, ph...
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Integrative oncology: Addressing the global challenges of cancer prevention and treatment

Ca-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, 2022
Jun J Mao,, Msce, Lorenzo Cohen, Karen M Mustian   +2 more
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