Sentences with phrase «basic research now»

The second reason is that advances in basic research now are downplayed by the funding agencies and by universities, due to its greater distance from generating new products and financial rewards.

Basic research now desperately needs some real budget increases.

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British Columbia taxpayers are now subsidizing massive water allocations, road construction and basic scientific research for uneconomic shale gas development by multinational and Chinese national oil companies.

Now, you can't even use it for basic keyword research anymore.

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I am not calling for cuts to government programs as of now — they are necessary for so many people's basic survival — but Mr. Beck does have a pertinent point: voting to tax someone else (typically wealthier than us) to provide assistance does not necessarily demonstrate a society that «cares» — much more caring is a society that willingly donates those funds to charities they have taken the time to research, and more caring still if the members of that society take the time to volunteer to administer that aid.

In the same way that the zero - tolerance approach to discipline sends precisely the opposite psychological message to disadvantaged kids than what we now know they need in order to feel motivated and engaged with school, so do many basic elements of traditional American pedagogy work in direct opposition to what the psychological research tells us will help those children succeed.

If it wasn't enough that, as his research assistant, I was having to daily talk him through attaching files to emails, finding an internet page, the joys of Twitter and the benefits of blogging, I am now doing three times more work than the entire parliamentary IT unit by answering his basic and annoying questions about gadgets.

Economists in the U.S. now largely agree that productivity and economic growth are dependent on the quality of human capital, the penetration of technology, the degree to which an economy fosters innovation and an economy's ability to translate basic research and development into commercial enterprises.

She is now a director in Exploratory Immuno - Oncology at the Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research (NIBR), where she relies on her basic research bacResearch (NIBR), where she relies on her basic research bacresearch background.

In 2008, he took a staff position in the bioinformatics department at Gladstone, where he now leads a team of biologists - turned - programmers and programmers - turned - biologists working to build free, open - source software tools for basic biomedical research.

Hackett said, «Studies of human immunology are usually not the first choice for research in basic immunology, but it is very important now to understand how humans differ from animal models.»

Whereas some companies a decade ago may have only lent their might to academic research that was likely to result in a relatively quick return, we now find them pitching in on higher quality, more basic research projects that are not necessarily in line with their core work but still on their radar.

«The nice thing about working for big pharma is that they can allocate resources for doing basic research,» says Gervais, now a research scientist at the company.

«Until we started our translational research efforts, basic and clinical scientists read different journals, and now they are e-mailing each other relevant articles.»

«We are very pleased that our basic research has been adopted for use in industry so quickly and that our approach of biochemical modelling is now being used to facilitate the automated control of pharmaceutical production processes,» says Julian Kager.

Start - up company Zink Imaging in Bedford, Mass., devised the process, the basic chemistry of which was invented by Stephen Telfer, now senior research fellow at the company.

«It really now calls upon the research field to start focusing on this area,» he says, «to look at drug effects in this area, to look at the types of changes that go on during addiction in this area, to understand what the basic function of this area is and why it would be important in this kind of context.»

«The agency's move meant that six federal agencies that provide the bulk of the nation's basic research funding now have public access policies required by a 2013 White House order.

I have now developed a varied career with three basic strands: the technology of teaching in the biosciences, bioinformatics consultancy and research support, and science writing.

Though details are still scarce, one expectation is that funding for basic research will rise to 10 % of total R&D spending by 2020, up from less than 5 % now.

At the same time, «basic research scientists like me, who have been studying the circadian system for so many years, are now looking at its metabolic effects.

«Now we are pleased to have some news again from the field of basic research: we have been able to identify no fewer than two key components of rubber biosynthesis.»

While the first 30 - million - DM round of funding focused more on basic research, the emphasize now shifts toward applied research.

Now, new research suggests the loss of certain types of cognitive skills with age may stem from problems with basic sensory tasks, such as making quick judgments based on visual information.

I started off with a passion for basic research, so why am I now trying to communicate science to the masses?

«We now have a simple tool for identifying and sorting the cells, which benefits future stem cell research and basic research on early embryonic development.»

According to Jennifer Flexman, a bioengineer who now works in technology transfer at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, large companies such as Genentech have a strong basic research component that is not so closely related to the pipeline.

For the first time Italy now has a national research plan, which includes a series of strategic programmes to better manage resources and increase competitiveness in basic and applied research.

«Either people can say the physics case is clear, now let us go ahead; or the physics case is clear, but we have plenty of time; or the Americans have cancelled their (collider), maybe we should too,» says Hermann Schunck of the basic science section at Germany's research ministry.

A pair of old fishing buddies is now steering the ship at the Scripps Research Institute, one of the world's largest private basic biomedical research insResearch Institute, one of the world's largest private basic biomedical research insresearch institutes.

Now that they've worked out the basic mechanism, Dr. Chu indicates that many more research directions will likely follow.

Scientists are now worse off than ever and government spending on basic research is lower than in any comparable industrialised nation (O. 24 per cent of GDP in the UK, against 0.33 per cent in France and O. 4 per cent in the US).

Now neuropathologist Henryk Wisniewski and his colleagues at the New York State Institute for Basic Research in Developmental Disabilities have found evidence that hay mites may be the culprits.

Now researchers working on canine cancer have an authenticated resource similar to what's available for human cancers,» says Daniel L. Gustafson, PhD, CU Cancer Center investigator and director for basic research at the Flint Animal Cancer Center.

Right now Cheetah is more of a basic research project than a program with a specific mission, says Boston Dynamics founder Marc Raibert.

I'm particularly proud that we started from the basic research interest and it's now developed into clinical relevance.

Dr. Simon Atkinson is a cell biologist with a basic research background in cytoskeletal proteins who is now Chair of Biology at the joint Indiana University - Purdue University graduate school in Indianapolis.

Looking now at all R&D (not just basic research), one sees that, post-Sputnik, total R&D per GDP has fluctuated between about 2.2 and 2.8 %.

Their research has created the technology known as gene targeting, now used in virtually all areas of biomedicine — from basic research to the development of new therapies.

His discoveries are now being applied in virtually all areas of biomedicine — from basic research to the development of new therapies.

Many of these novel cancer immunotherapy approaches, which originated from basic science research in CCIR laboratories, are now being explored as new treatment modalities in patients, with a significant number advancing through clinical trials towards FDA approval.

«If this is going to work,» Sweetenham said, «it means a big culture shift in the way that academic medicine and basic research is run right now.»

Mass cytometry has now been applied to various research areas including basic immunology, neuroscience, immuno - oncology, drug discovery, and stem cell research.

In 1999, Ashworth was appointed the first director of the ICR's Breakthrough Breast Cancer Research Centre, which is now internationally recognized, with more than 120 scientists and researchers working on aspects of the disease ranging from basic molecular and cellular biology through to translational research and clinicalResearch Centre, which is now internationally recognized, with more than 120 scientists and researchers working on aspects of the disease ranging from basic molecular and cellular biology through to translational research and clinicalresearch and clinical trials.

For now, the University of Massachusetts Medical School researchers plan to concentrate on continued basic scientific research to further refine their modified CRISPR technique.

Fluorescent biosensors have been tools in basic research and have now been optimized for detection on automated plate readers.

It took eight long years of research, but now an international team led by neuroscientists at Université de Montréal has discovered a basic molecular mechanism that better helps understand how Lou Gehrig's disease, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), works.

Merzenich is now applying his basic research findings to the development and testing of new tools for improving brain function in people with a range of neurological and psychiatric conditions, such as Alzheimer's disease or schizophrenia, or following brain injury.

«This company was founded on the strength of decades of basic research at Gladstone, and now we are proud to be associated with an exciting new company that can bring this science to the service of patients who truly need it.»