Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford, who began his career at 3D Realms and briefly worked on Duke Nukem Forever, attributes the delay to too-small developmentand too-loose planning.
In addition, we might be able to play immersive apps that incorporate the best video game mechanics into brain training programs to enhance cognition, perhaps allowing people to correct neural deficiencies and even delay the development of dementia.
The newly hot instruments are financial lifelines for publicly traded biotech companies that need funds to accelerate drug development, want to offload some risk in the process and want to delay the day they might license their drug candidates to Big Pharma.
The worrying things about the latest delay are that it comes so late in the process of developmentand that it relates to stresses where the wings join the fuselage.
Governments need to put the development of new NBSAPs and the signing of the Nagoya Protocol high on their list of priorities, because any delay on these fronts will augur poorly for the achievement of the Aichi Targets.