And researchers like Dr. Rodeo and Dr. Tol are doing more basic research on the biology of platelet injections.
You would want to finance more basic research.
And there is more basic research to do.
More firms should follow suit.Second, governments should encourage more basic research on dangerous pathogens.
(Experts say industry now tends to focus on near-term applications, while government finances more basic research that has greater breakthrough potential).
Second, the prospective return on investments will be buoyed by "promising technological developments".The administration thinks it can intensify the second force by funding more basic research.
"We know now that we need more basic research because the human cells we have at the moment – whether embryonic cells or IPS cells – are not, as some people thought in the past, the same as the true embryonic stem cells that we have from mice".
"While courts are comfortable with narrow patents, there is widespread interest among research universities in ensuring that our broader, more basic research work is likewise protected by the nation's patent laws," Thomas H. Jackson, the university's president, said in a statement.
But Dr. William Potter, who was once a top researcher at the mental health institute and retired last year as the vice president of translational neuroscience at the giant drug maker Merck, said that far more basic research needed to be done on the causes of mental illness before anyone — industry or government — could successfully create breakthrough drugs.
"Now that Gentry has changed that, more basic research can take it forward".
Apart from unsolved technical difficulties, much more basic research in embryonic stem cell research is needed.
