Over the past two years, the friction between science and politics accelerated further under the Republican Congress, with GOP lawmakers taking legislative aim at certain research areas, such as work involving human embryos, that they didn't like.
For that matter, Mr. Grove was pretty optimistic, too: when he started his foundation, he felt sure that by backing certain kinds of stem cell research (work the government was refusing to finance), he could quicken the move toward a cure.
But more federal legislation is looming, and research administrators say rules governing classification of federal research contracts and the hiring of foreign nationals to work in certain research labs are getting a close look from federal regulators.
While technical and medical advancements have reduced the extent to which chimps are needed for biomedical research, chimps continue to be vital for certain research purposes, as the N.I.H.'s working group on this issue has conceded.
The two companies are "working closely" on certain research projects, says Hrusovsky, who says that the sensitivity of his company's technology will be crucial to a better understanding of how all of the various candidate biomarkers can be used in the clinical setting.
They may even decide to study for a PhD based on the opportunity to work with a particular professor or on a certain research project.
Even longer intervals between treatments may be possible and the current research work of Bauer in Burkina Faso may indicate that this is possible under certain circumstances.
If you provide funding for certain research in certain areas you will get a lot of research in certain areas.
Should certain research on dangerous pathogens be government-classified to restrict access, as some nuclear research is, or can the scientists regulate their own work?
The goal of this unit is to allow students to gain an understanding through personal experience and a historical look at certain scientific discoveries of how research works.
