Sentences with phrase «because basic research»

The point is, there is just no funding because basic research is generally funded by the government and the government will not fund stem cell work.

It becomes a particularly nettlesome question because basic research of the sort done by Van Blerkom and Albertini has historically been adapted — snatched, really — for use in IVF clinics, often before all the biological ramifications are clear.

Perhaps so many of these new drugs fail to have an effect because the basic research on which their development was based isn't valid.

Not exact matches

Unfortunately, that's the very nature of research: despite efforts to accelerate innovation, basic research takes as long as ever because of the thoroughness, rigorous testing, and extended time required for commercialization.

My own research emphasis in harnessing technological tools for public service - in education, in medicine, and in servicing the basic needs of the poor - has led me to conceptualize strategies to facilitate cooperative (linking) ventures because communication technologies change so rapidly and the entrepreneurial opportunities are so vast.

I could go on and elaborate on a number of other disciplines or facts that creationists have to pretend into oblivion to retain their faith, including the Ice Ages, cavemen and early hominids, much of microbiology, paleontology and archeology, continental drift and plate tectonics, even large parts of medical research (medical research on monkeys and mice only works because they share a common ancestor with us and therefore our fundamental cell biology and basic body architecture is identical to theirs).

I had my students do a little research about the benefits of eating «5 a day» because I think people forget the basics.

Sometimes, though, it is difficult to know just how to do that because teaching methods change as research on basic reading and reading comprehension identifies better strategies to develop specially designed instruction for reading disorders such as dyslexia.

Basic research is a key component of R&D because of the contributions it makes to expanding our knowledge and understanding of phenomena quite apart from any specific applications this understanding may yield.

Some oppose basic research because the possible end point is altering heritable DNA.

The South Korean debacle [in which scientist Hwang Woo Suk was found to have been conducting fraudulent stem cell research] was revealing because one of the basic technologies that we thought they had developed they were in fact unable to do, and so far nobody in the United States or elsewhere has been able to do it either.

And he believes the opportunities for challenging, basic research are there too: «The basic research labs have gotten better [because] companies have gotten bigger, and they can afford better equipment and better research facilities.»

«It's almost a childlike innocence — you ask questions that adults might never ask, because they have a background where the question is no longer appropriate,» says Harmit Singh Malik, an assistant member of the Seattle - based Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center's basic science division.

Because the center is made up of four diverse divisions (Public Health Sciences, Basic Sciences, Clinical Research, and Human Biology), the talks cover something outside a member's direct area of expertise most of the time, which makes for an eager and enthusiastic audience.

And because most of the work is applied in nature, there is limited funding for more basic research.

However, our research shows that this reduction in mobility dramatically reduces the resilience of the system, because it impairs the basic functioning of a society over a long period.»

Cognitive conflict processing is important because it controls attention — one of the most basic executive functions needed to complete a task or make a decision, notes Haley, who runs U of T's Parent - Infant Research Lab.

«You still need the basic research, because there's still a lot to learn, and you need clinical trials.

And because the field taps into basic and social neurosciences and may have applications in clinical disorders such as autism, Blanke expects research funds in the area to increase.

The total for DOD basic research, labeled 6.1 in DOD jargon, should cheer research advocates and university groups because it more than reverses a cut of 8.3 % proposed by the White House in its 2016 request earlier this year.

Lively also touched on the president's plan to double cancer research at NIH over 8 years, which FASEB opposes because it believes basic science should be supported «across the board.»

«Our discovery is as such basic research, and PNAS wished to publish it because we have shown the way to change one type of pump into another type of pump, which reaches into our innermost understanding of the membrane pumps.

First, because universities are interested primarily in the advancement of knowledge (in science and other fields), they have been homes to basic research, some of which has led to enormous though unpredictable advances.

The present result would also widen the range of both basic and applied researches on superconductivity, because the Tc of 50 - 60 K achieved in the present study is high enough to keep the superconducting state by using a closed - cycle - gas - type cooling system without liquid helium.

Erasmus MC argued that the E.U. regulation doesn't apply to the H5N1 work because it makes an exception for ″ basic scientific research ″ and for information already in the public domain.

Basic research has centered on identifying and characterizing hematopoietic stem cells, however, it is still not clear how hematopoietic stem cells actually work, and how they are regulated because of the complexity of the bone marrow microenvironment.

Because the President's base budget had sought billion - dollar cuts to NIH and NASA, as well as a deep cut to DOD basic research, it tallied up to a more than two percent reduction to basic research funding, and a smaller cut to applied research.

Universities, research organizations, and researchers are up in arms because the U.S. Air Force is mulling a plan to move its basic research office to a base in Ohio that houses the branch's research headquarters and Air Force — operated labs.

Yet, because the genes that determine the sex in fish are quite different from ours, these genes are often unknown, and basic research is needed to reveal the fish» secrets of sex.

The freshman legislator said he «understands the value of basic research» because his constituents in and around Huntsville, Alabama, make up «one of, if not the most, highly educated districts in the sciences.»

«They should follow their own basic interests, whether in biochemistry, microbiology, or training as a physicist, but really think about getting extra training through a degree - granting program in clinical and translational research because this is going to position them to be more forward thinking,» says NCRR's Alving.

Of the two available models, a dual - degree program is probably the best approach for students interested in basic science, because the choices available for research training are likely to be wider and include more opportunities for basic science and bench research into molecular mechanisms, compared to graduate programs or postdoctoral fellowships linked to post-MD clinical training; the latter is more likely to be focused more on clinic - based studies.

Basic research needs to grow at least as fast as the economy because it is part of the feedback loop for most of the economy's growth.

In effect, the federal government already made this decision around 2003, because its support of basic research has stagnated in constant dollars since then.

In fact, the appropriability was likely even larger, because, until as late as the 1960s, America's potential competitors, Japan and Europe, lacked the full capacity to absorb the results of U.S. - funded basic research.

But, because the private incentive to pay for basic research is therefore attenuated, the private sector as a matter of economic self - interest is likely to underinvest in it.

The work of Dr. Rubio Godoy contemplates basic research in natural bodies of water where fish are captured and recognized or described when containing parasites; this is important because fish farms often receive water from these water bodies, and wild fish can serve as a source of parasites for farmed fish, or vice versa.

«We're thrilled to support the Keck II Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics, because we believe in the inherent value of science and the importance of basic research,» said Cyndi Atherton, Program Director for Science at the Moore Foundation.

Although basic research documents that these cells die by a multi-factorial process, the vast majority of therapies tested to date, or in development, are likely to fail because they target only a single injury pathway.

Patients will benefit because researchers will be able to move more quickly from a basic research discovery to new drugs in the clinic.»

Water research needs to get down to the management scale; for basic research that means they need to scale up and for global research that means they need to scale down, because we need to get to a scale where things are relevant to people and to management — the regional, national and global scenarios of this initiative will help with this if they concentrate on not just sticking to the global scale, but really getting down to the people.»

Because most jobs are in basic research and development, a doctoral degree is the usual educational requirement for astronomers.

«I felt very attracted to St. Jude because basic biomedical research is greatly valued by the leadership,» Kalodimos said.

Basic research in cancer biology is often viewed as «high risk,» in part because the clinical applications of a given research project might not be clear at the outset.

The war on cancer necessarily included basic research, because scientists and doctors had to admit they just didn't know much about cancer; how it arises, why some forms are more deadly than others, and the best way to treat and prevent cancer.

Or your child is sick with recurrent asthma and ear infections and you want a dietary cure — you may be warned away from a highly effective therapy because members of the Nutrition Committee of the American Heart Association fail to understand basic scientific research about human protein needs and plant foods.

I had my students do a little research about the benefits of eating «5 a day» because I think people forget the basics.

I have no problem getting 1.6 grams of omegas in general by eating fruits and vegetables exclusively in 3,000 plus calories daily but I'd like to know what the optimal ratio is because it wouldn't be hard to add in some flax or some other nuts or seeds to increase either omega 3 or 6, but I've also heard that there's an upper limit to omega 3 and there's just that basic idea of the ratio that seems to have a good amount of research backing it so I want to get it right.

Please correct this information in your article and do basic research lest others, like myself, disregard the entirety of your post because of blatantly incorrect information.

According to the study, the algorithms are misleading, because research has found both similarity and «complementarity» — the basic tenants of online match - making — have little impact on relationship quality overall.