Until now, such chips have been used mainly for basic research, not diagnoses.
Like most academic institutions, today Scripps sticks mainly to basic research, discovering the molecular underpinnings of health and disease.
Biophysical Reviews mainly targets basic research scientist, but as a number of reviews also have a strong link to medicine, the material is also likely to be of relevant to clinicians with an interest in the biophysical basis of diseases, treatments and interventions.
But these new genetic methods are being used mainly in basic research.
The ESR is already very active in basic research, mainly through its EIBIR European Institute for Biomedical Imaging Researchh, www.eibir.org) organisation.
It mainly publishes high quality basic research articles, which leads to its popular international impact.
In the forestry sector, basic research, mainly addressing silvicultural issues, is covered by the Forest Research Institute and Forestry Faculty of the Agriculture Academy, both in Kaunas.
Despite its female-biased prevalence, MDD basic research has mainly focused on male rodents.
"Steel research has changed from using mainly empirical methodology to applying basic research methods," says Peter Schwab, Senior Vice President for Research & Development at Voestalpine Stahl GmbH, an Austrian steel corporation in Linz with a research and development staff of 300.
This improvement can be effected mainly in two ways, by basic research and by the application of known and proven extension methods embodying the results of work in other countries.
