Hype Turns into Opportunity as Systems Biology Begins to Bear Fruit Biologys status as the engine of drug discovery is hardly ever questioned today, but it was not always so. For the first century of ...

The standard response to a resident fall in a skilled nursing facility or hospital has typically been a familiar, reactive cycle: Consult a checklist, re-educate staff and add more “call if help is ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

A middle-aged man with sepsis from a diabetic foot wound was admitted to a rural Utah hospital. It was clear the patient needed to be transferred to University of Utah Health for specialty care.

Traditional environmental monitoring techniques are well suited to resolving acute exposure effects but lack resolution in determining subtle shifts in ecosystem functions resulting from chronic ...

Systems medicine is a novel approach that involves generating, storing, and retrieving clinical and basic research information to improve patient care. This interdisciplinary approach has become an ...

Model-based systems engineering (MBSE) has been around for a while, but it continues to gain ground in engineering projects ...

Model-based systems engineering is quietly, but consistently, becoming an important part of the design, maintenance, and cybersecurity of the federal government’s most complex IT platforms. MBSE ...