The Conservation Law Foundation, for instance, touts the benefits of multibeam mapping on its Web site, but Anthony Chatwin, a foundation scientist, said the habitat must be protected now.
There, with help from the Rockefeller and Ford foundations, scientists in the 1960s crossed rice varieties and, by using herbicides and inorganic fertilisers, more than doubled rice yields.
For example, an evolutionary foundation deepens scientists' understanding of what disease is, and it explains why the metaphor of the body as a designed machine is inadequate.
With such a large amount of money at their disposal, the foundation's scientists might end up, albeit unwittingly, controlling the research agenda in these areas.The second risk is that other foundations and governments, even might feel that so much Gates money is flowing into global health that they can cut back on their own contributions.
This discovery laid the foundation for scientists to begin both to elucidate and to manipulate its function.
But Obama has no plans to visit the foundation, and scientists here acknowledge that doing so might be tough for the president.
The project evolved from efforts by private foundations and scientists as well as civic and business leaders.
Strict conflict-of-interest policies are themselves biased, since they suggest that researchers who work for drug companies are susceptible to introducing bias into a study, while government- and foundation-financed scientists never have an ax to grind.
Not all science foundations hire scientists to run their grants programs, and there's no central place for scientists to find out about employment opportunities in grants administration or policy and planning.
