"These elemental discoveries underscore both the value of federally supported basic research and the benefit of unfettered international scientific collaboration," said Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham, whose agency helped finance the work.
Scientific developments in basic research and the development of public health genomics have changed many paradigms regarding infectious diseases.
Given the importance of animal and basic research for scientific and clinical practice, there is a need for greater awareness about assembly and appraisal of the relevant literature comprehensively and systematically in reviews [ 30- 34].
The other policies President Obama is promoting to support manufacturing — measures to increase high-school graduation rates; work-force training programs at community colleges; more support for basic research, infrastructure investment, and scientific, engineering and technical education; and immigration reform — would benefit not just manufacturing but the entire economy.
But they are certainly thankful for the support that Congress showed for the nation's only agency whose sole mission is funding basic research across the scientific and engineering disciplines.
"The FIRST Act would have an extraordinarily unfortunate effect on an agency that is our broadest funder of basic research across all the scientific and engineering disciplines, including the social and behavioral sciences, which sometimes come in for particular criticism from members of Congress when they read the title of a grant that seems to them frivolous and a waste of taxpayers' money".
In addition to preparing fossils, the paleontologists coordinate the monument's basic research in paleobotany and other scientific areas and manage the fossil museum in the visitor center.
Within each industry, firms pursue different R&D strategies: firms that emphasize basic research absorb more basic scientific knowledge than those that emphasize applied research.
The importance of basic research for the nation's scientific and economic future was a recurring theme as more than 400 elected officials, government and business leaders, researchers, educators, and others gathered for the 40th annual AAAS Forum on Science and Technology Policy.
