However, implementing the rules governing human experiments done with federal money is already immensely complicated.
The experiments done into IHDs use samples that are too small, and their results are inconclusive, he suggests.
The Global Chemistry Experiment (Water: A Chemical Solution), a cornerstone event of the International Year of Chemistry 2011, is now one of the largest chemistry educational experiments done.
Mr. BRYAN CULLEN (Scientist, Duke University): There have been a number of experiments done in rodents, in particular in a mice, that have successfully shown that RNA interference does work at the whole organism level.
Yet a trial cannot be postponed until the missing experiments are done: some kind of verdict must be reached.
Both these experiments were done in mice but no one doubted that the same kind of biological malleability was also achievable in human cells.
Before any experiments were done, before the first discussions about process were had, the leadership determined how they wanted the finished product to behave.
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So far experiments have been done on E. coli bacterial cells, Tobacco Mosaic Virus cells, as well as human and hamster cells.
Over the years, many experiments have been done to test the link.
"This might be significant, but experiments have been done in this area, and they have not been successful, " he told BBC News Online.
Not everyone is convinced, but Dr Sinclair has done experiments on mice that look promising, and has started a company called Sirtris Pharmaceuticals to follow it up.
Each can be carried out by children of all ages in schools around the world and no special equipment is needed (all experiments can be done with laboratory equipment at schools).
What fairness is will differ among different people but endless experiments have been done that show that people will deliberately punish those they think are being unfair: to the point that they will make themselves worse off in order to do that punishing.
This is why many potentially experiments will never be done, and many of those that are done will be ignored or misused.
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So far the experiments that have been done haven't really hit the mark yet, but it's good that they are developing the ideas.
Scientists have done such experiments thousands of times, with a Crayola box of colors and using glowing genes taken from jellyfish and fireflies (see: " Biotech's Glowing Breakthrough").
We've done a bunch of experiments with various bits of hardware, but we don't have a display that we can ship.
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This is done through wind-tunnel experiments and analysis of controlled burns and naturally occurring wildfires.
Such experiments cannot, of course, be done on people, but something similar occurs naturally.
All these are theoretically differentiable profiles, but the killer experiments around these and other angles are being done now by many macrocycle startups.
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"If the community rejects even forward-thinking experiments like this one, real harm is done to the next generation of experimentation and change, " he says.
Arena is going to need to agree with the FDA on an independent pathologist to figure out a path forward on the rat carcinogenicity studies it has already done and possibly do more animal experiments.
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These were cumbersome experiments, he said, that can now be done cheaply and easily using things like the Kinect gaming sensors.
Sure, these can be done more quickly than human trials, but experiments eat time.
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They then run policy experiments on the model, asking what policymakers might have done to prevent the bubble forming, or at least stopped it building once it was clear there was one.
And most kinds of science can be done cheaper and better by unmanned missions (the chief exception being human physiology experiments).
Experiments with health care in states as far apart in every way as Utah and Massachusetts pre-dated anything done at the federal level.
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