We hope this framework steers scientists away from the search for the single "magic bullet" and toward creating evidence for effective solutions to complex problems such as the childhood obesity epidemic.
The existence of the list, which was revealed on 17 April by the newspaper USA Today, is raising concerns among some experts that it could undermine Western efforts to steer defense scientists in the former Soviet Union (FSU) into peaceful research.
The two aspects converge in a strange parody of the blood libel of ritual child murder, whereby a voice from the "Jew hole" (impossibly awful phrase!) steers the scientists towards their life-saving grail: a serum that can be drawn only from terrified children.
That, in essence, is how scientists steer their new remote-controlled rats, reported in the journal Nature.
That border was closed in May after Canadian agriculture officials found one case of mad cow disease in a beef steer, but many scientists warned then that any cattle disease found in Canada was likely to be found in the United States, too.
Last autumn, Nasa scientists steered the upper stage of an Atlas V rocket travelling at 5,600 miles per hour into a deep crater as part of the US space agency's hunt for signs of water on the moon.
But on 5 November, scientists steered Galileo to within 160 kilometers of Jupiter's fifth-largest moon, Amalthea, for its last scientific flyby.
In 2006, he described how transformation optics could allow scientists to steer light around objects, and so make them disappear from view.
Another reason scientists often steer clear of policy is that there are few incentives to participate -- no money and little professional recognition via scientists' usual reward systems.
Also, Markram advises early-career scientists to steer clear of sites where the only form of review is comments from readers.
