This afternoon William Hague spoke of the "great test of this generation" in a speech which was much more serious than the one his party's grown used to on the opening day of their conference.
The baby boomer generation were fortunate to be the first to be born into the NHS. Now they are the generation that will test the capacity of the service to deal with a healthier population living longer lives.
The Perth-based group wants to set up a facility at Clydeport's Hunterston site to test up to three prototypes for the next generation of offshore turbines.
Another promising treatment: an anti-CD20 antibody--kind of a second-generation Rituxan--that Genentech plans to test against rheumatoid arthritis, lupus and multiple sclerosis.
In the next decade, Genzel hopes the planned next generation of 30 meter-class telescopes will enable black hole astronomers to test general relativity around the event horizon itself.
Generation Health simplifies the selection of genetic tests for physicians, it helps explain the test and its results to patients, it safeguards data, and it drives a hard bargain with testing centers through its ability to direct large volumes of tests their way.