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style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN-RIGHT: 5px"> <a href="morenews/20080508.html"><img height="140" alt="Keck Future Logo" src="/web/20080510123507im_/http://www.nationalacademies.org/morenews/includes/20080508.jpg" width="100" border="0"/></a> </div> <p class="blurb"><span class="date">May. 8 -- </span> The National Academies have announced the recipients of its 2007 Futures grants for 15 projects ranging from engineering solutions to extend human healthspan to developing socially assistive robotics for physical and cognitive health. The grant recipients participated in the conference "The Future of Human Healthspan: Demography, Evolution, Medicine, and Bioengineering," held last November. A summary of the conference is available. </p></td></tr> <tr><td><div id="homepage_ul"> <ul> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080510123507/http://www8.nationalacademies.org/onpinews/newsitem.aspx?RecordID=12084">News Release</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080510123507/http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12084">Conference Summary</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080510123507/http://www.keckfutures.org/site/PageServer?pagename=home">National Academies Keck <em>Futures Initiative</em></a></li> </ul> </div> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="topnews"><tbody> <tr><td><h3 class="blurbhead"><a href="morenews/20080502.html">Report Advises on Risk Assessments for Boston Lab</h3></td></tr> <tr><td> <div style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN-RIGHT: 5px"> <a href="morenews/20080502.html"><img height="140" alt="Boston Skyline. From Wikipedia" src="/web/20080510123507im_/http://www.nationalacademies.org/morenews/includes/20071129.jpg" width="100" border="0"/></a> </div> <p class="blurb"><span class="date">May. 2 -- </span> When developing additional risk assessment studies for the proposed biocontainment laboratory to be located in Boston, the National Institutes of Health should consider scenarios for a variety of agents with diverse transmission characteristics and utilize available data to develop probabilities for release consequences, using either qualitative approaches or quantitative models, says a new report from the National Research Council. </p></td></tr> <tr><td><div id="homepage_ul"> <ul> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080510123507/http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12208">Full Report</a> </li> </ul> </div> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="topnews"><tbody> <tr><td><h3 class="blurbhead"><a href="morenews/20080429b.html">Academy Elects 72 New Members</h3></td></tr> <tr><td> <div style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN-RIGHT: 5px"> <a href="morenews/20080429b.html"><img height="100" alt="NAS Logo" src="/web/20080510123507im_/http://www.nationalacademies.org/morenews/includes/nas.jpg" width="100" border="0"/></a> </div> <p class="blurb"><span class="date">Apr. 29 -- </span> The National Academy of Sciences today announced the election of 72 new members and 18 foreign associates in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Election to the Academy is considered one of the highest honors that can be accorded a U.S. scientist or engineer. Those elected today bring the total number of active members to 2,041. </p></td></tr> <tr><td><div id="homepage_ul"> <ul> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080510123507/http://www8.nationalacademies.org/onpinews/newsitem.aspx?RecordID=04292008">News Release</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080510123507/http://www.nasonline.org/site/PageServer">NAS Web Site</a></li> </ul> </div> </td></tr> </tbody></table> </td> <tr><td valign="top">  <table class="topnews" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td> </td></tr> <tr><td><p class="blurb"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080510123507/http://www.nationalacademies.org/morenews">More <i>Top News</i></a><br></p> </td> </tr> </table> </td></tr></table> </td>   <td valign="top" width="50%" style="border-bottom: 1px solid silver;"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td bgcolor="white" valign="bottom" align="left"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080510123507/http://www.nationalacademies.org/headlines/index.html" border="0"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20080510123507im_/http://www.nationalacademies.org/nav/images/tab_sh.gif" alt="Science in the Headlines " title="Science in the Headlines " width="182" height="20" border="0" align="top"></a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tagline" height="15">Breaking stories in science </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="border-right: 1px solid silver"><a name="sith"></a> <table class="sith"><tbody><tr><td> <h3 class="blurbhead"><a href="headlines/20080506.html"> Globular Clusters May Have a Long Way to Go</a></h3> </td></tr><tr><td> <div style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN-RIGHT: 5px"> <a href="headlines/20080506.html"><img height="140" alt="Quasar (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory)" src="/web/20080510123507im_/http://www.nationalacademies.org/headlines/includes/20080506.jpg" width="100" border="0"/></a> </div> <p class="blurb"> <span class="date">May. 6 -- </span> Once thought to be approaching their twilight years, new research at NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory suggests that many globular star clusters may be earlier in their development than previously thought. <a href="headlines/20080506.html" class="blurb">[more]</a> </p></td></tr> </tbody></table> <br/> <table class="sith"><tbody><tr><td> <h3 class="blurbhead"><a href="headlines/20080428.html"> Military to Use Regenerative Medicine to Treat Injured Soldiers</a></h3> </td></tr><tr><td> <div style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN-RIGHT: 5px"> <a href="headlines/20080428.html"><img height="140" alt="A colony of embryonic stem cells, from the H9 cell line (NIH code: WA09). Viewed at 10X with Carl Zeiss Axiovert scope. Taken from Wikipedia. " src="/web/20080510123507im_/http://www.nationalacademies.org/headlines/includes/20080428.jpg" width="100" border="0"/></a> </div> <p class="blurb"> <span class="date">Apr. 28 -- </span> The Department of Defense has established the Armed Forces Institute of Regenerative Medicine (AFIRM), a collaborative effort to develop new treatments for wounded soldiers. Using stem cell research, tissue and biomaterial engineering, and other methods, AFIRM scientists hope to repair battlefield injuries and restore lost function in the hundreds of injured who return from Iraq and Afghanistan. <a href="headlines/20080428.html" class="blurb">[more]</a> </p></td></tr> </tbody></table> <br/> <table class="sith"><tbody><tr><td> <h3 class="blurbhead"><a href="headlines/20080417.html"> Earth Day 2008</a></h3> </td></tr><tr><td> <div style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN-RIGHT: 5px"> <a href="headlines/20080417.html"><img height="140" alt="Planet Earth. Taken from Wikipedia." src="/web/20080510123507im_/http://www.nationalacademies.org/headlines/includes/20080417.jpg" width="100" border="0"/></a> </div> <p class="blurb"> <span class="date">Apr. 17 -- </span> April 22 marks the 38th anniversary of Earth Day, a day of celebration and activism intended to raise awareness of environmental issues. 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