Together with physiology and biochemistry, anatomy is one of the basic sciences that are to be taught in the medical curriculum [ 3].
Although research on students' motivation to learn science has increased during the last two decades, little attention has focused on motivation to learn basic sciences that are considered essential requirements in health science curricula [ 26, 30- 32].
And will the private sector be interested if the research that we fund pans out?" That question is an important one, that is, "Is it relevant?" We're not doing basic science that is exploratory.
Of course, in any biotech company, there are also lots of opportunities to be involved in the preclinical basic science that is necessary to develop the therapeutic products.
"This is nothing to do with the basic science, that's not the issue," Lawson said.
The package focuses on what presidential science advisor Jack Marburger describes as basic research in the physical sciences that is "most likely to generate the sort of results that will create technologies to improve U.S. competitiveness".
A more promising subject of medical science in this direction would be related to the basic medical science that is called embryology.
One outcome of the many advances in basic sciences that have been made over the last decades is the prospect of rational vaccine design.
In particular, Dienstag argues that the era of personal, genetics-based medicine (PMC 2009) requires that biochemistry, genetics, and cell/molecular biology be viewed as basic sciences that must be mastered (in depth) during the pre-medical years and built upon in medical school.
The Nobel was awarded for basic fundamental science that's still at the development stage, Olof Ramström of the Nobel Committee told the press conference.
