But there are natural flows to human discovery and knowledge, and basic and applied research are not enemies.
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But just a year later, the discovery of human remains on a bank tower roof and then in a manhole near ground zero outraged families who said the search for their loved ones had been rushed initially.
"I remember as a small child him talking about the greatest area of discovery was still the human brain, " he said.
Prof David Reynolds, from the University of Cambridge and author of The American Occupation of Britain, says that personal contact with GIs quickly "penetrated beyond the movie image of glossy Americans into a discovery that they were human beings, warts and all".
That discovery has cast light on human embryonic development and, indeed, on the everyday working of adult bodies.
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On the basis of this discovery, DeCode recently began human trials of an old asthma drug that counteracts the bad genes, hoping this will slash heart attack risk.
An action-adventure journey of self-discovery, AVATAR dramatically demonstrates how human invasion almost destroys the balance of life on the planet of Pandora.
Despite all the technological advances in e-discovery and document review, without human guidance, machines cannot handle the complex decision making that ultimately determines whether a document is responsive.
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Geron and GE Healthcare, a division of General Electric, are developing and commercializing cellular assay products derived from human embryonic stem cells for use in drug discovery, development and toxicity screening.
General Electric ( GE - news - people ), are developing and commercializing cellular assay products derived from human embryonic stem cells for use in drug discovery, development and toxicity screening.
The researchers' discovery finds an intriguing echo in a human disease called Morvan's syndrome.
The collection of ordered human genes uncovered jointly by Celera Genomics cra (nyse: cra - news - people) and the federal government's Human Genome Project has the potential to make drug discovery faster and easier by allowing scientists to more quickly figure out what chemicals inside the body a drug has to stop, boost or replace.
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Though the minds and hands behind the research are acknowledged, the real story is the discovery itself and its place in the jigsaw of human understanding.
The centre will integrate expertise in cell biology, mass spectrometry, proteomics, "big-data" analytics, drug discovery and computer science to exploit the potential of the human genome project for healthcare and the development of safer drugs.
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So far the antiresearch crowd has forced the company to close a small operation that distributed primates in the U.K. Remarkably, antivivisectionists have not pursued Foster in the U.S. A bigger challenge to preclinical research may be to beat out such competitors as Covance, which originally specialized in human clinical trials, and MDS, a provider of contract drug discovery services.
Advocates of human embryo cloning for medical research claim the practice could lead to the discovery of treatments for illnesses currently deemed incurable.
As an added benefit, some software and e-discovery providers can monitor the speed, progress, and accuracy of the human reviewers to determine their efficiency and competency.
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Deciphering the first draft of the human genome has been a monumental task and was rated on Monday as being more important than the discovery of the wheel.
Most drugs would have been lost in the shuffle, but Velcade had two advantages: strong data in human beings, and the enthusiastic Adams, who has since become Millennium's director of target discovery.
Almost 50 years since the identification of Moore's Law, and 10 years since the human genome was first sequenced, humans and machines are beginning a new arc of re-imagining and discovery -- together.
While the scientific babble may not mean much to you, the long and short of it is that this discovery could "lead to further breakthroughs in invisibility cloaks, which could hide objects from the human eye" and make escaping your troubles quite a bit easier.
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The discovery, made in Mexico's southern Chiapas state, is one of the biggest cases of suspected human trafficking, police say.
This discovery allows them to move forward on the creation of an artificial organic substitute for the retina also for human beings.
That's a job for the next human-carrying spacecraft to come along from the US. And I think in the case of this mission of Discovery, everyone was comfortable with where the risk numbers fell and they were ready to go.
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