Any citizen with a family member or a friend suffering a degenerative illness understands that President Bush has provided nothing to stem cell research but impediments.
One of our other grantees, LISC, launched "Communities for Healthy Food NYC" with four community development corporations (CDCs) in Bedford Stuyvesant, West Harlem, Mt. Eden in the Bronx and Cypress Hills in Brooklyn to create solutions based on extensive research into impediments that residents in those neighborhoods face.
Deidentified newborn screening bloodspot samples (NBS) represent a valuable potential resource for genomic research if impediments to whole exome sequencing of NBS deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), including the small amount of genomic DNA in NBS material, can be overcome.
"With a centre-right coalition, you just don't know exactly what you will get," comments Klaus Günter Deutsch, an economist at Deutsche Bank's research arm.One impediment is something Ms Merkel cannot do much about: the economy.
The second set of survey questions, summarized in Table 4, addressed the research subjects' perceived impediments to commercializing research.
Previous literature related to women [ 28, 35, 44] or breastfeeding [ 14, 19, 20], and previous qualitative research identify these impediments.
Although undue pressure by a partner or family member to participate or not participate in clinical research is an impediment to autonomy, consultation in itself may not be an impediment, and may in fact lead to greater contemplation and a more informed decision.
So far, however, two panels of government experts who have looked at the issue have not found significant impediments to research or medical care caused by gene patents.
And that seems to me to be one of the largest and scariest impediments to research.
Here, we synthesise the fields of progress, current impediments and research opportunities in tropical sea cucumber aquaculture arising from recent studies and an Indo-Pacific symposium.
