With M.R.I. technology, scientists can visualize brain activation.
While cloning animals is still a young and inefficient technology, scientists expect it to improve.
With current technology, scientists would not have a vaccine for a new pandemic strain until the outbreak was well under way.
Consequently, although modern war technology depends heavily upon scientists and although many of them are employed by governments in work directly or indirectly concerned with this technology, scientists as a group are far from being wedded to war.
Using a huge bank of rice varieties stored in the Philippines along with cutting edge Chinese technology, scientists have completed the DNA sequencing of more than 3,000 of the most significant types of rice.
That same year, by means of recombinant DNA technology, scientists were able to produce a biosynthetic human form, which they called somatrem, thus assuring a virtually unlimited supply of this once-precious substance.
Examining the stony material with computerized imaging technology, scientists came upon an even bigger surprise, one that could profoundly change theories of dinosaur physiology and the place of at least some of these creatures in the evolutionary history of life.
Some experts say that given the complexities of the technology, scientists themselves, as opposed to legislators, have to take the lead in designing ways to ensure proper uses of biotechnology.
The technological problems of producing the new hi-tech foods are nothing compared to the trouble the industry is having with the consumers – the "yuck factor", as the food technology scientists across the world like to put it.
Even with the improved technology, scientists were unprepared for the roller coaster of light-intensity changes found at the Milky Way's core, said Dr. Gordon Garmire of Pennsylvania State University, who was involved in the Chandra work.
