Inventing a machine that behaves the way plants have for billions of years, but more efficiently, required creating a new kind of laboratory: the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (JCAP), in Berkeley, which combines basic scientific research with rapid prototyping.
These investigators are combining basic scientific research with an intense focus on developing applications, commercializing them, and training the workforce that will be necessary to support them.
The Royal Institution, which was founded in 1799 to carry out basic scientific research and support public engagement with science through lectures and demonstrations, has been running its annual Christmas lectures since Michael Faraday began them in 1825.
In this role, he leads an effort to bridge basic scientific research in children's development with public policy affecting children and families.
Whole classes of drugs that have changed health in this country for the better -- like statins, which lower cholesterol -- began with basic scientific research in a university lab.
Articles were mainly categorized as dealing with basic scientific research (40/146, 27%), medical treatments (36/146, 25%) or multiple topics among treatment, prevention and diagnosis (32/146, 22%).
We addressed these issues by analyzing all kinds of health-related articles (i.e., articles aiming at improving the reader's knowledge about health from a scientific perspective, thus dealing with basic scientific research, as well as medical treatments, tests, products or procedures) appearing on the Italian newspapers over one sample week.
We simply do not understand ourselves or the world well enough to predict everything we need or might need; basic scientific research ensures we are equipped to deal with issues beyond the limits of our present-day imagination, should they arise.
The research of Laurie Sanders, PhD, takes a translational approach (i.e. bench-to-bedside), aiming to translate multidisciplinary basic scientific research into meaningful health outcomes for patients with Parkinson's Disease.
It focuses on research with immediate relevance to public policy, rather than basic scientific research. .
