Assistant Director Marylou Verder-Carlos asked staff scientists to study the request.
That may be enough for scientists to study someday, but the dreamers may have to look elsewhere.
In the 40's, he set up an interdisciplinary group of social scientists to study Japanese value systems.
This led some companies and scientists to study ways to stimulate glutamate receptors as a treatment for schizophrenia.
A century ago, when shipworms were a common scourge, governments around the world paid scientists to study them.
This is a well-established technique used by scientists to study the immune system called heterochronic parabiosis.
They will be used by scientists to study how dust is distributed across Mars's atmosphere.
"But I've constantly reminded them I'm protecting them and I'm allowing scientists to study them".
The farms are used by scientists to study human decomposition to help the police better determine time and manner of death in crimes.
Still, the report prompted the agency to appoint a team of agency scientists, then a second team of independent scientists to study the city's proposal more closely.
The virus causes too few human cases -- only about 20 a year in the United States -- to enable scientists to study it properly.
