Hints that Vioxx might cause heart attacks had existed for years, as basic research pointed to a mechanism by which the drug might cause more clots.
The NSF established precedents for support of basic as well as applied research.
With public concerns about national security fading, global economic competition is being pressed into service as an alternative justification for basic research.
Kate McIver, of the Pain Research Institute at Liverpool University, said work done there on helping amputees create mental images of pain-free limbs - which operated on the same basic principle as the US research - had also proved effective.
We are changing some of our directions and we're focusing a lot of our attention on research in epidemiology, in the prevention areas, as well as, certainly, a heavy emphasis on basic research, which is really where all the cures are going to come from.
As Bradley Voytek points out, basic research into things that on the surface might seem silly have led to astounding innovations.
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For the revolutionary technologies, the solution is not to throw up your hands, as Andreas suggests, but do some basic research.
The lack of such basic legal research is telling as to the significance of partition in the decision to form PLP.
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Now there still may be a case for the government investment of dollars into truly basic, risky research, as the government does in the sciences.
Governments may be good at certain things that advance technology, such as the peer-reviewed funding of basic research and pre-commercial development (including demonstrations of proof-of-concept), but they are rarely leaders in technological innovation.
President Obama referenced computer chips and the Internet as having been enabled by government investment in basic research.
He said that the company's sales force is becoming more "customer-centric, " even as its laboratories find new ways of evaluating basic research.
But just as ignoring deficits would mortgage our future, failing to invest in our kids, in our infrastructure, in our basic research and clean energy, that would be mortgaging our future as well.
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Everything we think of as being pretty important -- from education to basic science and research to transportation spending to national parks to environmental protection -- we'd essentially have to eliminate.
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We can do the basic research either way: we want the market as that is what gets the new drugs, the new treatments, the new spiffiness, into the hands of people who use it to do interesting and useful things.
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Once more: I find it hard to understand how someone who worked as head of Research and Development at Pfizer could possibly deny this basic, universally recognised problem of poor external validity in clinical trials.
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The company had pursued blue-sky basic research more common to drug titans with staffs three times as large.
The problem, as Knowles saw it, was that the company was too focused on exotic basic research and neglected the less glamorous work of concocting compounds with the right combination of efficacy, safety and convenience to become big sellers.
Research in massage therapy, for example, is in its infancy, and little is known about the basic physiological effects of various techniques on tissues such as capillary beds, connective tissue, chemical markers, etc, so basic science research is critical in advancing our understanding of the various physiological effects of massage therapy.
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He said the union had published research which showed that free school meals act as a "a broad and basic indicator, which doesn't account for issues like levels of deprivation, ethnicity, and per pupil funding", all of which had an impact.
But one of the things that's become clear is, is that we need to accelerate our basic research in ethanol and other biofuels that are made from things like woodchips and algae as opposed to just focusing on corn, which is probably the least efficient energy producer of these various other approaches.
As a novel, global data source Argo has also become a central element in operational oceanography and in basic research and has great value in education.
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