The argument is that while BAS science has yielded the discovery of the ozone hole and other important findings on the glaciers and biology of the Antarctic Peninsular, the future lies in collaboration.

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Such simulations could be used in the future to better understand the complicated biology of diseases like cancer and Alzheimer's.

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We will focus our future research aboard this station on the long-term effects of space travel on human biology.

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Harvard Professor Mark Fishman , who will leave his academic perch to run Novartis' Cambridge-based laboratory, believes that in the future most biological research will be possible both in drug companies and in academia, but some sliver of basic biology will still need to be done solely in academia.

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