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Workshops without Walls: Broadening Access to Science around the World
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Astrobiology Institute (NAI) conducted two âWorkshops Without Wallsâ during 2010 that enabled global scientific exchangeâwith no travel required. The second of these was on the topic âMolecular Paleontology and Resurrection: Rewinding the Tape of Life.â Scientists from diverse disciplines and locations around the world were joined through an integrated suite of collaborative technologies to exchange information on the latest developments in this area of origin of life research. Through social media outlets and popular science blogs, participation in the workshop was broadened to include educators, science writers, and members of the general public. In total, over 560 people from 31 US states and 30 other nations were registered. Among the scientific disciplines represented were geochemistry, biochemistry, molecular biology and evolution, and microbial ecology. We present this workshop as a case study in how interdisciplinary collaborative research may be fostered, with substantial public engagement, without sustaining the deleterious environmental and economic impacts of travel
Cardiopoietic cell therapy for advanced ischemic heart failure: results at 39 weeks of the prospective, randomized, double blind, sham-controlled CHART-1 clinical trial
Cardiopoietic cells, produced through cardiogenic conditioning of patients' mesenchymal stem cells, have shown preliminary efficacy. The Congestive Heart Failure Cardiopoietic Regenerative Therapy (CHART-1) trial aimed to validate cardiopoiesis-based biotherapy in a larger heart failure cohort
Workshops Without Walls: Broadening Access to Science around the World
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Astrobiology Institute (NAI) conducted two âWorkshops Without Wallsâ during 2010 that enabled global scientific exchangeâwith no travel required. The second of these was on the topic âMolecular Paleontology and Resurrection: Rewinding the Tape of Life.â Scientists from diverse disciplines and locations around the world were joined through an integrated suite of collaborative technologies to exchange information on the latest developments in this area of origin of life research. Through social media outlets and popular science blogs, participation in the workshop was broadened to include educators, science writers, and members of the general public. In total, over 560 people from 31 US states and 30 other nations were registered. Among the scientific disciplines represented were geochemistry, biochemistry, molecular biology and evolution, and microbial ecology. This workshop is presented as a case study in how interdisciplinary collaborative research may be fostered, with substantial public engagement, without sustaining the deleterious environmental and economic impacts of travel. URL:[http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.1001118].science, microbial ecology, NASA, environmental, economic impacts of travel, public engagement, workshops, technologies, scientists, videoconference system, laptop, mobile, video-conference room, office, home, case study