Nasa said that the investigations will cover human research, biological and physical sciences, technology development, Earth observation, and education.
However, he said that his team was still a long way from moving into human research, as scientific and political obstacles had yet to be overcome.
The Secretary of Health and Human Services (Secretary), through the Director of NIH, may support and conduct responsible, scientifically worthy human stem cell research, including human embryonic stem cell research, to the extent permitted by law.
It saw the Solexa acquisition as a way to extend its expertise in human genetic research.
Also, at least two bills have been introduced in Congress to ban human cloning research.
President Clinton has issued an administrative directive that no federal money be spent on human embryo research.
Because of revised ethical standards for human subject research, this kind of experiment cannot be replicated exactly.
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The team from the Human Nutrition Research Centre of Auvergne, in Clermont-Ferrand, France looked at the behaviour of proteins in muscle.
At the time he was head of America's National Centre for Human Genome Research, part of the country's National Institutes of Health (NIH).
"Most dog breeds have really only been around since Victorian times, " said Elaine Ostrander of the National Human Genome Research Institute's Dog Genome Project.
San Diego has become the human genome research capital in America.
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The Human Engineering Research Laboratories (HERL) is a part of the VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System and has created robotic arms, better wheelchairs, and other mobility devices.
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President Thomas Okarma, speaking on behalf of the Biotechnology Industry Organization, underscored the numerous benefits of human cloning research and expressed opposition to the all-out ban.
But the work of turning the base pair data into the gold of new treatments has already begun, according to Dr Francis Collins, head of the US National Human Genome Research Institute.
Children are highly protected in most human subject research.
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In 2003, Dr. Francis Collins and his team of researchers at the National Human Genome Research Institute at the National Institutes of Health discovered the gene that causes this fatal disease.
Federal law currently prohibits taxpayer-funded human embryo research.
To build on a metaphor used by Eric Green, the head of the National Human Genome Research Institute, this is like a map of a coastline drawn by an explorer who has not made landfall.
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The ban was lifted for funding of fetal tissue research in 1993, when promising approaches were proposed for treatment of Parkinson's disease, but the ban on federal funding for human embryo research remains in effect.
"This is the first time anyone has shown that a single parkin mutation can lower the age of onset, " said Dr James Gusella, study leader and director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Human Genetic Research.
Dr. HYNES: We concluded that women should be reimbursed for expenses and we left the exact amount to what's called an institutional review board, which all institutions that do human subject research have to have such a committee.
My main objection to the overall thrust of the article is that it ignores evidence that indicates that of all groups, white graduates find employment much sooner than any other group, according to a recent study by the Human Sciences Research Council.
Many of the responses involve running strands of DNA through tiny pores of one sort or another and Jeff Schloss, a programme director at the National Human Genome Research Institute (which is part of the NIH), reckons this is a particularly fruitful approach.
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As a result, the National Institutes of Health and the Wellcome Trust tightened access to these collections of DNA. The scientific community protested, but officials felt they had no choice because participants had been explicitly promised anonymity, said Eric Green, director of the National Human Genome Research Institute at NIH.
Collins, the force behind the mapping of the human genome and now the director of the National Human Genome Research Institute, accused the firm of hijacking drug research with flimsy patents covering huge strips of so-called junk DNA, biological bits once thought insignificant but now central to the work of disease hunters.
The company last week released the latest version of a product for research institutions to automate their regulatory compliance procedures, manage research project approvals and improve the efficiency of complicated human and animal research.
As simply one example of many, the Broad Foundation invests in advancing innovative scientific and medical research in the areas of human genomics, stem cell research and inflammatory bowel disease.
There, I was responsible for providing leadership for agriculture, human ecology, research, and cooperative extension.
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