Word: developable
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...sciences is to create a dedicated program similar to the Accelerator Fund for the Life Sciences, which provides funding for promising, but early-stage discoveries that need “proof-of-concept” validation before venture capital or other industrial partners will make a significant investment and develop it for commercialization...
...that we as a society demand and medical advancement requires,” he said in a speech supporting the legislation. “By expanding scientific access to embryonic stem cells which would be otherwise discarded, this bill will help our nation’s scientists and researchers develop treatments and cures to help people who suffer from illnesses and injuries for which there are currently none...
Colin Cotterill owes a lot to hepatitis. In 1990, as an aid worker for UNESCO, he was dispatched to Laos to develop a curriculum for English classes. It was a bit of a Sisyphean assignment, since all the English textbooks in the country were written in German, a language virtually no one in Laos understood. On the flight from Europe, however, fate intervened. A doctor in the adjacent seat leaned over. "He said, 'You do realize you have hepatitis, don't you?'" Cotterill recalls. "I looked at myself in the mirror, and, by God, there were these big yellow tennis...
...agreement that he had no intention of carrying out. Four months later he was driven from office, replaced by B.J. Habibie, his hyperactive Vice President, a man better known for his expensive and far-fetched plans to build an aircraft industry than for any clear sense of how to develop Indonesia's economy. Indonesia has struggled to keep its head above water ever since...
...Nearly twenty years since a Pakistan-backed insurgency began to fight India for either Kashmiri independence or a merger with Pakistan - a conflict that has claimed over 68,000 lives - feelings are still strong. When Pakistani president Asif Ali Zardari, who has been keen to develop stronger ties with Pakistan's neighbours, recently told an interviewer that India had "never been a threat" to Pakistan and labeled as "terrorists" the Islamist militants who had fought India in Kashmir with the backing of the Pakistani military, there was outrage in Pakistan and among Kashmiris on the Indian side of the Line...