The final survey contained 62 multiple-choice questions focused on broad issue areas such as technologies employed, experimental approaches, organizational capacity and resource allocation, perceptions of benefits and hurdles, data storage and exchange, and future expectations.
The survey outcomes revealed benefits, weaknesses, and hurdles for the implementation of DDM&S.
The survey should provide insights into the current impact, benefits, weaknesses, and potential hurdles as perceived by the different stakeholders and identify both technical and conceptual requirements for effective decision making and knowledge integration management.
Evaluation in relevant, preclinical models is ongoing, requesting to extensively translate the current procedure in animal samples, in order to determine the benefits (and monitor potential hurdles) of the approach in vivo prior to safe translation in the clinics.
Organized labor plays a key role in easing this transition by speaking up for decent wages, benefits and working conditions, facilitating the legal hurdles to citizenship and holding employers accountable.
This review has cited many of the benefits and lists some of the current hurdles of implementing plant-derived antimicrobials in food application.
For a review of the hurdles and potential benefits of interspecies cloning, and for a list of the combinations that have been tried as well as successful live births, see Beyhan, Z., Lager, A. E., and Cibelli, J. B. 2007.
Despite short-term implications and hurdles, increased HEV usage forecasts a generally favorable long-term net benefit to society.
While recognizing the risks posed by and hurdles to implementing fully interoperable systems, Palfrey and Gasser argue that the potential benefits are well worth pursuing.
But one thing is for sure: For those scientists and engineers who worked in industry and migrated to academia, the career benefits outweigh the hurdles.
