Canadian technology budget downgrades basic science

Basic Science Symposium II: MEMS Technology

For a long time surgeons and basic scientists have been working together in developing instrumentation to restore function across a diseased human joint. In the quest to achieve their objectives during this long journey, they have developed analytical and experimental methods to quantify various parameters across a normal and a diseased joint, like the hip joint. For example, back in the late 8...

Technology and basic science: the linear model of innovation

The concept of the “linear model of innovation” (LMI) was introduced by authors belonging to the field of innovation studies in the middle of the 1980s. According to the model, there is a simple sequence of steps going from basic science to innovations – an innovation being defined as an invention that is profitable. In innovation studies, the LMI is held to be assumed in Science the endless fr...

Stem cell technology for basic science and clinical applications.

I n the adult mammalian central nervous system (CNS), most of the mechanisms responsible for cell proliferation and migration are shut off; thus, the capacities for self-repair and cellular replacement are greatly diminished. Observations that cell division continues in some regions of the adult brain and some resulting cells become neurons prompted attempts to identify the progenitor cells res...

First Liberal budget good for Canadian science, but what about global health?

Basic Facts for Basic Science

Overall, this outstanding text should soon become recognized as the definitive reference for the diagnosis and management of ocular trauma. The tall, narrow shape of Basic Facts for Basic Science suggests that perhaps the author intended that it be put into the pocket of one's lab coat; perhaps not, but this book is certainly appropriate for the shelf of any laboratory and for the office of any...