By and large, modern science has never been in their interest or the interest of the 2.6 billion people without access to running water or the millions, who despite breakthroughs in agriculture and farming, are still starving in 2015.
Despite breakthroughs in molecular biology that have opened up new synthesis routes to pharmaceuticals and fine chemicals, biotechnology has not been widely deployed for production of high volume, low cost chemicals.
Despite breakthroughs in identifying mechanisms of blood flow, the in vitro perfusion system remains limited in its application to understanding and treating disease states by their inability to replicate crucial in vivo influences.
Despite pivotal breakthroughs in international negotiations, Rouhani faces increasing pressure on the domestic front as he balances the concerns of a rigid conservative camp against the grievances of voters grappling with sociocultural restrictions, unemployment and downward social mobility.
Despite research breakthroughs on various novel materials, silicon remains one of the most attractive substrates for fabricating nanostructures because of its abundance in nature and the existence of well-developed techniques for device integration.
As we approach World AIDS Day on December 1, Wilson reminds us that despite scientific breakthroughs, African Americans account for 44percentt of new infections, even though they make up only 14percentt of the population.
General nonfiction: "The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer," by Siddhartha Mukherjee (Scribner), an elegant inquiry, at once clinical and personal, into the long history of an insidious disease that, despite treatment breakthroughs, still bedevils medical science.
However, despite enormous breakthroughs in genomics, estimating genetic parameters for disease resistance has proven considerably more challenging than analysis of production traits, and this has hampered the incorporation of disease traits into breeding programmes.
Despite the breakthroughs in management of tuberculosis noted by Waksman 8 years after his discovery of the first effective antitubercular drug, streptomycin (Schatz et al, 1944), the disease continues to infect, incapacitate and kill in the 21st century.
Despite the breakthroughs in the determination of the atomic structure of the Head modules from S. cerevisiae and S. pombe, the assignment of the Head module in the core Mediator remains vague.
Despite these breakthroughs, H. E. the Vice-President and Minister for Women's Affairs of Gambia recognized the "notable gaps in the system related to fragmentation, scope, coverage and financing, as well as institutional weaknesses in design and delivery of programmes" which, she pointed out, "limits the system's effectiveness".
