If anything, the court's decision may prompt biotech companies to rely even more heavily on that strategy than they do now — an unintended consequence that could stall research in many critical areas.
To keep Germany's science from stalling, research minister Johanna Wanka must break a federal-state impasse.
Paul Vincett, director of science policy and past president of CAP, says the lack of an exemption has stalled research in those provinces or compelled scientists to hire engineers before carrying out their work.
It wasn't OK to stall research and remain silent in the face of AIDS, and people spoke up to move things along.
This year it was 'future' – a theme which stalls from research groups across the UK interpreted in a variety of ways.
This new airfoil designed by DLR will be used in dynamic stall control research activities (project ADASYS) planned for the near future: the leading edge portion of the airfoil will be drooped down dynamically to improve dynamic stall characteristics on the retreating side during blade motion.
Sequestration, the automatic spending cuts that stalled important research across the country, and years of flat-funding as homeland defense swept other priorities aside, have shifted the balance with federal funding for research on a downward trajectory.
By using monkey kidney cell tissue cultures to grow the poliovirus, Salk solved the problem that had stalled vaccine research for the better part of two decades: How to quickly and safely grow enough poliovirus to make and test a vaccine on a mass scale.
When I applied to do my PhD, an interviewer asked, "What will you do when your research stalls, and you've made no progress for months?" "Take a holiday," I said.
A lack of funding effectively stalls any new research initiatives, said Godbout.
