And we are discovering more and more that what we might anticipate from our knowledge of basicscience does not always pan out when we study what happens to patients.
At Maria's school, half the students don't pass Arizona's proficiency exams, which means they don't meet the bar for basicknowledge in math, reading and science.
This erosion in our basicscience investment has occurred at the very time that the biomedical revolution has opened huge opportunities to advance our knowledge of disease.