The experiment by the Scottish Association for Marine Science SAMSS), Plymouth Marine Lab, plus 8 other research institutes, will simulate what would happen if a pipeline to a carbon store leaked.
The brief letter explains that folding several existing programs at NCRR and other institutes into the new center "will propel translational science more swiftly".
By describing the challenges and accomplishments of the project, it is hoped that the knowledge and experience gained will benefit other institutes involved in similar technology transfer projects designed to facilitate increased vaccine manufacturing capacity in developing countries.
Eventually, Sher and others say, the number of institutes will have to shrink in order for Russian science to survive.
NCRR programs not involving translational research will move to other institutes, it says.
The expectation is that the vast majority of NCRR programs will land in other institutes or centers, a lot of them in the National Institute for General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) because the familiarity and the similarity there between NIGMS and NCRR has always been fairly tight.
At UCLA, researchers at the Geffen School of Medicine and the Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Sciences will work with five other institutes -- including Scripps Research Institute -- under an initial $1.5-million 1.5-million grant
Inefficient institutes will be closed or merged with others," says biochemist Yegor Vassetzky, a Russian expat at the Institut Gustave Roussy in Paris.
