Recently, attention has focused on interacting systems which have applications from image processing, communications networks, models of spread of disease, etc. Odyssey of Life During the May 18th press conference announcing Nobel Laureate Dr. Baruch Blumberg as the new head of NASA's Astrobiology Institute, Blumberg posed a challenge to the scientific community. The mission is to look for life without any specifications. One way to do this is to study the forms that life can take. This is wonderfully intriguing question about structures, both naturally occurring and humanly constructed.
Human beings seem to be intuitively attuned to structures.
A Biology 20 Inquiry Project. Advances in medical technology and science have made organ procurement, the search and transfer of organs and tissue from one body to another, a very important issue. Since the demand for healthy organs far exceeds the supply, many questions enter this debate blending medicine with politics, ethics, research, religion, and other concerns.