scholarly journals Quality management and biological resource centres

2006 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 31
Author(s):  
Vera Weihs
Keyword(s):  
Quality Management ◽  
Final Stage ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
Biological Resource ◽  
Culture Collections ◽  
Daily Work ◽  
Service Culture ◽  
Biological Resource Centres ◽  
The Future ◽  
Traditional Service

The 2001 OECD report Biological resource centres: underpinning the future of life sciences and biotechnology resulted in the establishment of the Guidance for the operation of BRCs. This document still is in its final stage of discussions and has not yet been passed. Nevertheless, many traditional service culture collections already comply (or try to) with these guidelines in their daily work.

scholarly journals The three cornerstones for biological resource centres

2006 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 38
Author(s):  
Virginie Storms ◽  
Philippe Desmeth ◽  
Jean Swings
Keyword(s):  
Future Development ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
Great Effort ◽  
Biological Resource ◽  
Biological Resource Centres ◽  
The Future

Biological resource centres (BRCs) are an essential part of the infrastructure underpinning life sciences and biotechnology. The Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) taskforce on BRCs (1999-2004), has put in a great effort of thought to define the new BRCs and forms the basis for the future development of the actual culture and reference collections. The effort, which has taken so many years and was, from the beginning, inspired by many WFCC members, has resulted in an important visionary document.

scholarly journals From culture collections to biological resource centres

2006 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ipek Kurtböke
Keyword(s):  
Service Providers ◽  
Structural Information ◽  
Biological Systems ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
Economic Cooperation ◽  
Living Cells ◽  
Biological Resource ◽  
Culture Collections ◽  
Biological Resource Centres

As defined by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), biological resource centres (BRCs) are an essential part of the infrastructure underpinning life sciences and biotechnology. They consist of service providers and repositories of living cells, genomes of organisms, and information relating to heredity and the functions of biological systems. BRCs contain collections of culturable organisms (e.g. genomes, plasmids, viruses, cDNAs), information on viable but not yet cultured organisms, cells and tissues, as well as databases containing molecular, physiological and structural information relevant to these collections and related bioinformatics.

scholarly journals Biosecurity responsibilities of biological resource centres

2006 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 19
Author(s):  
Ronald M Atlas
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Biological Materials ◽  
Health Protection ◽  
Microbial Culture ◽  
Biological Resource ◽  
Culture Collections ◽  
Biological Resource Centres ◽  
The World ◽  
Public Health Protection

Biological resource centres (BRCs), which house the world?s microbial culture collections, have emerging biosecurity responsibilities to prevent terrorists from acquiring dangerous pathogens that could be used to do harm. This presents a major challenge to the primary functions of BRCs, which are to supply biological materials for research, public health protection and economic development.

scholarly journals The World Federation for Culture Collections (WFCC) and biological resource centres

2006 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 10
Author(s):  
David Smith
Keyword(s):  
Cell Lines ◽  
World Federation ◽  
Genetic Integrity ◽  
Biological Resource ◽  
Culture Collections ◽  
Biological Resource Centres ◽  
The World ◽  
Derivatives Of

The World Federation for Culture Collections (WFCC) is the largest independent global organisation representing professional individuals and culture collections which preserve and utilise biodiversity. Member collections target living microorganisms, cell lines, viruses and parts and derivatives of them. Key values are authenticity and genetic integrity of the material and validity of the information provided.

scholarly journals NBRC, a national biological resource centre of Japan

2006 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 33
Author(s):  
Ken-ichiro Suzuki
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Information ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
Biological Materials ◽  
Biological Resource ◽  
Biological Resource Centres ◽  
Catching Up ◽  
Microbial Cultures ◽  
The Government ◽  
Intellectual Properties

As defined in the OECD report issued in 2001, biological resource centres (BRCs) are an essential part of the infrastructure underpinning life sciences and biotechnology. A wide variety of biological materials such as microbial cultures, biomass, DNA, etc are supplied by BRCs. The databases available from BRCs are not only for the sales of materials, but also for those containing scientific information catching up with other advanced bioinformatics. In addition to these scientific contents, BRCs are expected to operate in the management of intellectual properties and promotion of the government?s policy on biosafety, quarantine, etc.

scholarly journals Some Remarks on the Report by the Commissioners appointed to investigate into the Recent Changes in the Relative Values of the Precious Metals

1891 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 190-204
Author(s):  
A. Gillies Smith
Keyword(s):  
Precious Metals ◽  
Daily Work ◽  
The Future ◽  
Value Of Money ◽  
As If

Some years have now elapsed since I had the honour of addressing you from this chair. In the paper which I then read to you I urged on our younger members the necessity of studying finance, and especially of endeavouring to form a just estimate of the value of money, and of the rate of interest which will obtain in the future, so far as that future forms an element in our calculations. Without this knowledge we shall build with insufficient materials, and in the absence of its thoughtful application to our daily work, and to our periodical investigations and valuations, we shall rear a fabric which, although it may last during our lives, and look to all appearance as if it were carefully and substantially built, will certainly, before its time, show symptoms of decay, and finally fall about the ears of too confiding policy-holders.

Psychophysiology, cognition, and political differences

2021 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jordan Mansell ◽  
Allison Harell ◽  
Elisabeth Gidengil ◽  
Patrick A. Stewart
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Open Science ◽  
Common Theme ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The Future ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Political Differences ◽  
Science Framework

AbstractWe introduce the Politics and the Life Sciences special issue on Psychophysiology, Cognition, and Political Differences. This issue represents the second special issue funded by the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences that adheres to the Open Science Framework for registered reports (RR). Here pre-analysis plans (PAPs) are peer-reviewed and given in-principle acceptance (IPA) prior to data being collected and/or analyzed, and are published contingent upon the preregistration of the study being followed as proposed. Bound by a common theme of the importance of incorporating psychophysiological perspectives into the study of politics, broadly defined, the articles in this special issue feature a unique set of research questions and methodologies. In the following, we summarize the findings, discuss the innovations produced by this research, and highlight the importance of open science for the future of political science research.

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