One key to a sustained national energy quest, is greatly boosting direct federal support
for basic research in relevant sciences.
Federal
funding for basic research using fetal tissue has increased by 16 percent since 2011, and is projected to be $ 77 million for the coming year.
Moreover, private industry's
support for basic research hardly reaches significant figures, and only a very few outstanding institutions benefit from this kind of funding.
In order
for basic research on climate change and the global carbon cycle to move forward, researchers need this information.
The embryos will not become children as they must be destroyed within 14 days and can only be
used for basic research.
The scientists also noted that last year, the government eliminated
grants for basic research and that since 2008 the number of new permanent positions for academics has contracted by 90 %.
Academic institutions are starting to realize the potential commercial value of scientific breakthroughs and companies recognize the
need for basic research in commercially important innovation.
However,
for these basic research findings to become human treatment, clinical trials are needed to discover which drug is most efficient in activating brown fat and has few or no side effects.
A better understanding of signal processing in the retina may be beneficial not
only for basic research, but also in eye care medicine.
That is all good — but with the expected fallout of the supreme court ruling, somebody has to continue the
drive for basic research.
The call was
for basic research into the mechanisms of asthma, with the goal of developing new approaches to treatment and prevention.
A PhD degree in physics or closely related fields is typically required
for basic research positions, independent research in industry, faculty positions, and advancement to managerial positions.
The new reactor is
designed for basic research on fusion and also as a potential prototype power plant that could produce significant power.
What begins an
idea for basic research program today could well be the seed for the future treatment options available within the health care industry tomorrow.
The network will contribute to extensive databases with cancer patient information, such as medical history, cancer tissue and DNA, that can be
used for basic research and clinical trials.
The research was supported by the National Science Foundation and the Miller
Institute for Basic Research at the University of California, Berkeley.
Overview of the major funding
agencies for basic research in China: Efforts for ensuring research integrity Presenter: Hongyang Wang, Shanghai Eastern Hepatobiliary Surgery Hospital, China
«We think that lack of SOD1 could be priming the muscle to use all of its survival skills,» said Holly Van Remmen, Ph.D., professor of cellular and structural biology in the School of Medicine and associate director
for basic research at the Barshop Institute.
AAAS CEO Rush Holt sent a letter on July 18 to the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources applauding its leaders for authorizing increased funding over the next five
years for basic research, including the ARPA - E program, in the Energy and Natural Resources Act of 2017.
While the model is meant to be a
tool for basic research in cognition, Martinez can foresee potential applications in the treatment of disorders that involve emotional triggers, such as PTSD, or a lack of recognition of other people's emotions, such as autism.
Like its predecessor report, which detailed 15 science opportunities ripe for advancement, The Future Postponed 2.0 provides a snapshot of 13 additional breakthrough
opportunities for basic research and their potential long - term impacts.
The research gap: Through the Federation of American Scientists, 34 winners of the Nobel Prize have sent an open letter to President Obama urging him to keep his promise to create a robust, consistent flow of federal
dollars for basic research in energy and related fields.
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.
The biochemist is receiving the
award for his basic research on the development of white and brown fat and on their effects on health and nutritional physiology.
Specifically, the agencies provide data on funding
levels for basic research, applied research, development, construction of R&D facilities, and major capital equipment for R&D (see Definitions for the common definitions that OMB, the agencies, and AAAS use to classify programs as R&D or non-R & D).
DOD would increase its support
for basic research by 7.8 percent to $ 1.2 billion, after several years of decline from its peak funding level of $ 1.3 billion in FY 1993.
The summit's organizing committee strongly endorsed the use of CRISPR and similar
methods for basic research that involves altering the DNA sequences of human sperm, eggs, and embryos, but concluded that producing a pregnancy from such modified cells or embryos is currently «irresponsible» because of ongoing safety concerns and a lack of societal consensus.
I use my brokerage account to check out buy and sell dates, unrealized gains and losses, and
for basic research before buying a new stock, mutual fund, or ETF.
It's a small but important silver lining in a year when even NSF's best friends in Congress have turned their backs on the Obama Administration's request for a 13 %
increase for the basic research agency as part of the political consensus on reducing the federal deficit.
These cellular clock models allow monitoring of molecular rhythms using inexpensive off - the - shelf recording devices, making it suitable
for basic research laboratories, as well as large - scale screens in pharmaceutical companies.
«Studying the genetic basis of delay discounting is something I've wanted to do for the entirety of my 20 years of research, but it takes a huge number of people for a genetics study to be meaningful,» said senior author Abraham Palmer, PhD, professor of psychiatry and vice
chair for basic research at UC San Diego School of Medicine.
The study received support from The Welch Foundation, the Texas Institute for Brain Injury and Repair, the Decherd Foundation, the Mobility Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and the Kent Waldrep Foundation
Center for Basic Research on Nerve Growth and Regeneration, which is connected to the Peter O'Donnell Jr..
January 2018 - Princeton University Geraldine Seydoux, PhD, Huntington Sheldon Professor in Medical Discovery and Vice
Dean for Basic Research at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and HHMI Investigator: «Are RNA Granules Liquid Organelles?