Sentence examples for obscure research from inspiring English sources

In "Miss Leavitt's Stars", George Johnson artfully tells how this seemingly obscure research led to a drastic revision in the perceived size of the universe.

For patients desperate for answers, many of them severely disabled for years, the finding from an obscure research center, the Whittemore Peterson Institute for Neuro-Immune Disease in Reno, Nev., seemed a godsend.

Sharron Angle, the Republican senatorial candidate in Nevada, seizing on a grant for obscure research into cocaine's effects on animals, has upbraided the Democrats for lavishing funds on "coked-up stimulus monkeys" among other worthless projects.

Ever since George Osborne declared that he wanted to start a "march of the makers" in last year's budget, politicians across the ideological spectrum have been assiduously wooing metal-bashers, carmakers and even obscure research scientists whose inventions might be money-spinners.

In selling the health care overhaul to Congress, the Obama administration cited a once obscure research group at Dartmouth College to claim that it could not only cut billions in wasteful health care spending but make people healthier by doing so.

When dollars are hard to come by the public can easily say, "Why should we waste our tax on obscure research?" Tyson argues for a human presence in space as a massive PR exercise.

J.H.: How obscure my research field is depends on how you look at it.

We deceive ourselves in the laboratory by assuming that testing animals raised under conventional conditions yields a "pure" evaluation of toxic potential free of the complexities that obscure human research.

Although he was aware of his own accomplishments, he never let it go to his head (he loved to point out that he had been awarded the Noble Prize - a relatively obscure Canadian research award - knowing full well that he was perennially touted as a shoo-in for the more celebrated Swedish prize).

Currently, there is no standard available for inference of the genetic code of an unannotated DNA sequence, and a range of ad hoc methods that lack quality control and reported reliability scores obscure this research area [the notable exception being Gendecoder (Abascal et al., 2006)].

These may obscure the research-treatment distinction in early-phase trials, further confounding communications about the safety focus of phase I trials.