Scientific Research Obstacles – Jordan Experiment

Extending life: scientific prospects and political obstacles.

Aging can be slowed in laboratory rodents by low-calorie diets, and changes in single genes can extend mouse life span by 40 percent or more. Therefore, despite its surface complexity and effects on multiple cells and intercellular systems, aging in mammals might also be retarded by both genetic and nongenetic means. If human aging could be slowed pharmacologically to the extent now possible in...

SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE Analysing the various obstacles to cornea postmortem procurement

Aims: In many countries the number of corneal donations is far too low to graft all patients on waiting lists within reasonable time. The aim of this study was to define specifically what practical changes are to be implemented to fully meet corneal graft demand. Methods: The list of potential donors drawn by the coordination team from 1 January to 31 December 1999 was compared with that of all...

Obstacles to firearm and violence research.

Obstacles to research in forensic psychiatry.

From 1987 until 1996, the Human Investigation Committee of the Whiting Forensic Institute (WFI), the maximum-security hospital of the State of Connecticut, reviewed and approved 52 research protocols. Most (45/52 or 87%) were implemented, resulting in the completion of five master’s theses, three doctoral dissertations, and more than 36 publications in peer-reviewed journals, including the Amer...

Confronting the scientific obstacles to global control of tuberculosis.

Tuberculosis (TB) is a major threat to global health, recently exacerbated by the emergence of highly drug-resistant forms of the disease-causing pathogen and synergy with HIV/AIDS. In 2006, the Stop TB Partnership published "The global plan to stop TB: 2006--2015," which set out a vision of halving the prevalence of and mortality caused by the disease by 2015, followed by eliminating the disea...