The FDA says it won't oversee scientists who clip out undesirable genes that, say, cause mushrooms to brown, because, unlike traditional genetically modified food, you aren't adding in DNA from other organisms but simply taking something out.
Currently, the agency, which oversees 4,500 scientists, generates just $80 million in cash flow a year, even though its annual budget is the equivalent of half a billion dollars.
At Nortel, Roese oversees 12,000 scientists, engineers and designers.
As research chief of Pfizer Inc., he oversees 6,000 scientists at.
As research chief of Pfizer Inc., John F. Niblack oversees 6,000 scientists at major labs in Groton, Connecticut; Nagoya, Japan; and Sandwich, England.
The revised version of the exposé also scrubbed a paragraph that suggested IAEA inspectors would oversee Iranian scientists as they collected samples and photographs at Parchin, despite other parts of the report claiming that officials from the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency would be barred from entering the facility.
As NIST director, Gallagher oversees some 3000 scientists, engineers, and support staff at two main labs in Gaithersburg, Maryland, and Boulder, Colorado.
Gordon de Brouwer, secretary of the federal Environment Department, which oversees AAD, told scientists and support staff on 8 April that the division, based near Hobart, Tasmania, also faces an unspecified number of "voluntary" job losses.
For many of these NEMDBs, it seems reasonable that an independent group of qualified scientists oversees these resources and related activities not only at their initiation but on an ongoing basis.
Two floors down, Jie Fu, a research scientist, oversees testing.
