for example, the nih blue print for neuroscience research is soliciting interdisciplinary research to see how circuitly underlies the pain and addressing the pain care, professionals and researchers which was another key issue highlighted by the report. the compliment and encourage investigator initiated report on pain, nih has undertaken many initiatives. this is models, measurement and management in pain research which the iom commended for the comprehensiveness. others target specific conditions including recently ocular, joint disorders and those from cancer therapy to name but a few. the alternative medicine recently funded through centers on chronic low back pain and is spear heading a trans-nih agency effort under the aegis to develop diagnostic criteria for back pain. the national institute of diabetes and digestive and kidney diseases multidisciplinary approach to the chronic pelvic pain research network is another example that embraces the whole body approach. in conclusion as a scientist i'm encouraged by the opportunity for success. as a clinician who treats people in pain

for example, the nih blue print for neuroscience research is soliciting interdisciplinary research to learn how changes in neurosignalling signals chronic pain. they also addressed education of pain and researchers and there's another key highlighted by the report. the investigator referred to pain, and nih undertook specific initiatives including one entitled "mechanisms, models, and management in pain research" which the iom commended for its soundness. they target specific conditions including recently ocular pain migraine, joint disorders, and nerve damage from cancer therapies to name but a few. the national cementer for complementary and alternative medicine funded two cementedders on cron -- centers on chronic back pain and speering an agency effort on the pain consortium to develop criteria for back pain. the national institute of diabetes, digestive, and kidney diseases research network is another example that embraces the whole body approach. in conclusion, as a scientist, i'm encouraged by the opportunities for progress that research presents. as a clinician who experienced

i just also want to underscore your earlier question about research. we need a lot more research. and the research is not simply about what we think we know, but what we don't know. there is an extraordinary need for much more fundamental basic research in what causes pain, how it's manifest, and how we can go about a treating it. the therapies that we have today, although they work and many people are quite limited, and we need brand-new insights to develop better approaches and innovations that will only come from very fundamental research as well. >> very well stated. thank you very much, dr. pizzo. senator whitehouse? >> thank you, chairman. and thank you again for holding this hearing. i think it's very important and helpful. i'm going back now a couple of years to when we started working on this in rhode island. but the thing that struck me was the extent to which in various health care settings, the pain that a patient was experiencing was either deprecated or overlooked entirely, and that there was a systematic bias against recording it and reporting it so that even if you

that research lead to discoveries but that research leads to manufacturing in the united states because that is where we will see future prosperity. the department of energy is working in a number of ways. when there are issues having to do with i.t. generated by the department of energy we look at what means we have. if you start a company or research that -- what are the means we have at our disposal to make sure it doesn't go to the highest bidder and what are those -- for example, i will tell you one example. we supported some research done by company based in america on manufacturing of improving manufacturing to drive costs down. it was a successful program. given what was happening in china than they were going to get out of this business and we were taking steps to make sure the ip generated by american taxpayers would have control. >> so it did migrate? >> if we -- [talking over each other] >> what is the reference to china? if we made and you gave this example yourself, if we made a substantial investment what did we do to protect -- >> what we do is we look at the legal means

mismatch between the allocation of nih funding for pain research. though one can quibble about that level, it ranges from 0.4% to 1.3%, yet we know that the consumption of health care dollars is enormous. so if we look at medicare costs alone, 14% of the medicare budget is used to treat chronic pain. yet again only about 0.8% of our nih resources are used for the study of chronic pain. if we look beyond medicare, if we look at the consumption of direct and indirect costs associated with treating common conditions, including chronic pain, we find that almost 30% of direct and indirect costs are associated with the payment for the treatment of chronic pain conditions. in my view, there needs to be additional resources either provided to nih, targeted towards chronic pain and pain initiatives, or a allocation of nih appropriations that are use to further address a pain-related conditions. there are other substantial issues that are outlined in the iom report related to research, but to me that is one of the primary fundamental research barriers that cu

research. secondly, -- veritas of university research. secondly and this was a point that our founder emphasized with great force that when one is thinking seriously about applied policy questions, one has to take into account the enormous uncertainty and ambiguity of government action and of the extreme political contentiousness that surrounds every decision made in this world of uncertainty that one is in when one is in the government. so, at the think tanks, we are working with out the simplifying assumptions and the explanatory things that are the hallmark of academic research, and we are attending to -- attempting to come up with usable knowledge that can be used toward practical political ends. we are not simply coming up with knowledge. we are trying to achieve something practically. this was new. i know from my years of managing a think-tank that maintaining it requires a complicated balancing act. the people who can do this research must be very knowledgeable realistic about politics b

we would like to see not only that research lead research leads to discoveries but that research leads to manufacturing in the united states. because that is where we will see our future prosperity. the department of energy is working in other ways. first, when there are issues having to do with ip generated by the department of energy, we are looking at what means we have to say if you support our star company or research, what are the means we have at our disposal to make sure it doesn't go to the highest bidder, and just wh just what are those means? >> i'll tell you one example. we supported some research by a company that was based in america on manufacturing of improving the manufactureability to drive the cost down. given what was happening in china, they weren't going to get out of this business and we were taking steps to make sure the i.p. generated by american taxpayers would have control, that, again, it doesn't migrate. >> so it did migrate? what's the reference to china? we know that china is aggressive in this area, but if we made, and you gave this example yourself, if

when i visit their website, it looks to me, i'm a, it is researching, their people talk about research they have done. some of it is not particularly close to immediate politics, but there are always supported the very much like the white house website. they are very much on message. and i think that that is a great danger. neera gave us two examples of work that they had done, both work during the bush administration when they were in opposition. the real, it's fun to be in opposition. you know, you have a lot of independents. when your friends are on the inside, that is the real test of your independence. she said a couple, i'm interested to hear what she says in response. she gave a couple of examples of how the work is becoming more variegated. reputation is everything in this business. i'm not the only person that has this impression of cap's work. everyone at cap much untapped must know this and i suspect they will evolve in him much greater degree of independence over time. my big concerns are these two. these institutions are hard to sustain, and sustain the kind of research th

our in-situ it for accepted research is without a field of membership so the research has to be free because otherwise it cannot spread out globally into all the countries the difference between being a member and not being a member is that without membership you are don't have any ok ssion any opportunity to have positions staff members fellowships etc at cern itself you don't have the opportunity for your industry to participate in our big accelerator projects this to her you have been in moscow recently and you discussed with your colleagues from the chapter three institute joint project what kind of collaboration are you having in mind with the coach out of people. well as a coach i don't think. we have already a very good cooperation collaboration on the experimental side that means the experiments which are performed. now we see the big opportunity was a coach of in-situ the affiliated institute under the umbrella of course right off on the accelerator side told to develop your methods for the accelerator vashon. scientists had been been very much on the forefront then we would

i greatly appreciate the emphasis on science and research. i think that's key. more money for geothermal research i believe is a good thing and emphasis on dropped in biofuels clearly a worthy endeavor. but i have some heartburn with the decision to reduce the funding for renewable waterpower. this is an issue that i hope we can discuss in the questions and answers after this. r and d efforts that could help unlock massive volumes of unconventional resources are again zeroed out. i'm concerned by many of the big ticket expenses that are either directly or indirectly tied to this budget. we've got new and renewed tax credits as a extension of the 1603 program. billion dollar vehicle deployment program. $5 billion for advanced programs. $6 billion for energy home star programs. and i clearly understand why people would want to fund all of those and i certainly have shown my support in many of these areas but given the state of the federal budget, where we are, i would stress that now is a time to differentiate between those things that we might want to fund and th

you're going to cut fossil research and development 21%. you're cutting advanced energy systems almost half, cross cutting research by 40%. all the while, you're increasing funding for all the other research programs other than for coal. notably a $500 million increase for the renewable program which is already funded at 1.8 billion. how do you explain that? that's completely contrary to the answer you just gave me, if i understood you correctly. >> as i said, we do support the research. there is a deployment side -- >> then why are you cutting it? drastically cutting it. if you support it, that's a funny way of supporting. how are you supporting it with other than money? >> we are supporting it with money, we are supporting it with trying to work with the utility companies in these projects. >> well, there's been lots of applications for fossil energy r and d. i don't think there's been any of them approved. >> r and d? excuse me? >> loan guarantees, excuse me. >> i think the loan guarantees are ones where we're working through them. these

>> guest: such as, again, premarely biomedical researchers -- primarily biomedical researchers. we expect to be in full commercial race by the third quarter. >> host: so, dr. scott, how are you funded? is this a venture capitalist type funding? >> guest: oh, no. we are, um, we are listed, we're a public company, so, yeah. so we're -- >> host: life technologies is the name of the company. what's the scientific american that you have up here on your -- >> guest: yeah. so at this booth we were able to have a very, i think, productive partnership with scientific american both in terms of this particular booth, but also this terms of some other wider activities here at the ces meeting. >> host: very quickly, what's your background? >> guest: i'm a chemist, actually a physical chemist, so i've worked a lot in sequencing. i was involved in the human genome project ten years a so my background is chemistry and sequencing for about a decade. >> host: we've been talking with graham scott of life technologies here at the consumer electronics show in las vegas. and here at the consumer elec

research section and of the sore project. on behalf of the entire project and the entire team which is large, i want to welcome you all to our ground-breaking ceremony and just give you a little bit of background on the aids office itself and the reason for the soar project. the aids office is really a unique research institution. in addition to the care that's provided and the resources that are given to the community to care for, to prevent and care for people with h.i.v. infection, we really are the only health department that is leading the h.i.v. prevention and surveillance effort. the kind of research that we do is done primarily through universities, so we're in a unique position. we have three research organizations houses within the aids office. there is the h.i.v. epidemiology unit that is headed by dr. seussan sheer and willie mcfarland. they really are the premiere surveillance group for h.i.v. and aids in the country that train many other groups globally about how to track h.i.v. infections and h.i.v.-related dis

research? you can. >> you can? >> for a traditional pharmaceutical. a generic merfer can say -- >> if it's only chemistry? >> yes. >> was that distinction made by hatch and wax man in 84? >> in 84 i don't think anyone envisioned what was coming in terms of biopharmaceuticals and so the hatch-waxman act in 84 addressed traditional pharmaceuticals and what we need is a comparable regulatory process in legislation to do the same thing. >> is it that much of a distinction between a biopharmaceutical and a nonbiopharmaceutical? >> there really is. >> so you could exact that kind of reaion to it o or -- it's a regulation? you can only deal with tra dition additional drugs? and these are new drugs. they are also very expensive drugs. and you need support for $5,000 a month to treat colon cancer with the drug used to treat a judge nark condition that costs you a lot annually. >> rem cade -- >> rem cade used for severe rheumatoid arthritis. $5,000 monthly. >> 3,500 a year. still a lot of money. >> this

in life sciences performing research. we sell to government labs, academic labs, pharmaceutical companies, primarily researchers. exploring biological questions. >> how long have you been in business? >> well, life technologies has -- as an entity has been in business a little over two years. but the general siss goes back over 25 years. because two major companies fought with us. form life technologies were applied life. so they stayed over two decades. >> how do you use technology in your work? >> again, technology is used by scientists who are posing questions about disease. they want to understand the biology of disease. typically they are working with samples. i'll give you a concrete example. they may be working with cancer cells and also controlled cells, and they are asking biological questions about what is different in the cancer cells to the controled cells. >> what do you have on display here? >> what we have on display are new protown sequencers which are very transformtive. it uses completely revolutionary t

sarah uhl coordinates the field research in the riparian zones.oman: we're working in a very complex system, and we're trying to understand how the introduction of wolves is one factor interacting with a suite of other factors to change willow and other riparian shrub populations. maybe this one that we're looking at is one of these dots. and therefore, we need to go a little bit more... we definitely need to get around. narrator: crabtree has set up around 90 plots throughout yellowstone. every four years, a team of field biologists returns to each plot, locates each of the trees and shrubs on the plot... what else is around you? ...and updates the master database with the current health of each plant. man: our daily routine usually involves going out and relocating willow plots that were charted, mapped, and studied four years ago, in 2002. so we do need to go all the way to the bank there. man: then we can set out our measurements for the plot. and we actually take our gps unit, our data sheet, and our measuring tools and basically go to each p

after they did the research. and this is again based on this very strong performance and early successes, we think this is certainly money very well spent and we're asking for an additional increase in funding. . nuclear security, we're asking for nuclear security objects. and let me just ask you through this. nuclear security means we're responsible for our weapons systems. it means we're also trying to lock down and we're ahead of schedule in locking down all vulnerable nuclear materials around the world. we're also responsible for work in nonproliferation. in terms of the budget, in order to reduce the nuclear dangers, environmental risks, we're asking for $7.6 billion to maintain a safe, secure, and effective nuclear deterrent. $2.5 billion for or nonproliferation work.

on page 38 you will find a document how to research your san francisco building. they have lots of references to other agencies but quite frankly the san francisco history room in the san francisco library is a fantastic resource and people there are extraordinarily knowledgeable. and page 14 talks about when the photo collection is open. you have to wear white gloves and can look at a couple at a time and they will often have photos of your block or neighborhood or the ones that are fascinating and part of your collection as well. >> my experience with that resource has been really excellent over the years. they really take a lot of pride in the collection and get excited when somebody wants to use it. i encourage you to use these people as a resource. the street photographs are not the only resource for photographs that are really invaluable. they have a lot of news related photograph ss that are indexed sometimes by dris strict or street but never by address but that does not mean you won't see the address your after. san francisco heritage located in the,li z,

to find out, canadian researchers fitted her and three other sea lions with tracking equipment. seems happy to help. she is taken on her own personal speedboat to british columbia. and the water is more than a mile deep. this is the perfect place to study how she hunts for food. now, it is time to put her to the test. using all of this sophisticated equipment, researchers hope to learn more about what happens when she dies. she finds her way into an enclosure just underneath the platform. pieces of fish are pushed down a pipe that goes right down to the bottom of the water. then, the sensors measure precisely the amount of energy she uses as she goes down to catch the fish. they have discovered that it is much harder for her to feed close to the surface, a clue perhaps as to why her kind is dying out. >> what we have learned is that to really understand their daily lives, you have to spend 24 hours a day with them to find out what times of the year are critical for them. how they do things. we are getting into the heads of the sea lions. >> for the first time, researchers are lo

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was it on purpose or just lack of research? >> well, since i already need a visa to get to harvard and let me into the boston area, what i think happened is this is that the academics who -- and author schlessinger, jr., of a wonderful friend of mine, but the academics who are in the ivy leagues and great graduate collars all supported almost to a man, richard hot stet ler, harry kulling aer, i mean, these are seminal figures in the historical profession. they couldn't get a life. every time they worked and worked and worked there was never a prayer for adly stevenson to defeat dwight eisenhower. the first time in 52 stevenson lost by 3.5 million votes. the second time he only lost by 9.7 million votes. it when these they taught grat watt system fares. when a brat was and nixon was, and it became the stuff of the rightings, and their graduate stings and it's lattsted until now. there's a biography coming out, a man who is a journalist did an enormous amount of research. he went to dartmouth and went to the library of congress,

. >> in chicago, they decided to take researcher, opposition researchers to keep track of santorum ine the surge continues. >> preparing for both candidates. david kerley in washington. thank you. meantime tomorrow on "this week" with george, john mccain and robert gibbs. that's tomorrow morning here. >>> meantime in washington. a bail hearing is set for next week after that suspect was arrested in an terrorist sting, accuse to blow up the u.s. capitol. by detonating what he thought was a suicide vest. the native of morocco living illegally in northern virginia. allegedly thought he was working with al qaeda but instead it was the fbi. we turn overseas, where fire and screams fill the capital of syria where heavily armed troops open up at a funeral. alex marquardt reports from the syrian border where the sounds captured today tell the story. >> reporter: as the snow fell in damascus today, huge crowds of mourners marched to within two miles of the presidential palace, their grief turning to anger. and then, gunfire from security forces. protesters scrambled for cover. in the central c

agenda or informing the research agenda so researchers can put together research that is relevant for communities. so that is just a couple of things i am real excited about. and the results get down to someone like jordan who is out talking to the schools. why is it important, jordan? i want you to make that broadly known. why is it important for schools to have individuals like yourself go and speak to the student body and speak to parents? i think it's important to have, you know, someone speak on mental health, like myself to go into schools basically to generate and to start a conversation. because what i think happens is there is a conversation started and that generates a lot of attention and from that attention that is when the education begins. and that is what i like to do, is just to plant a seed when i go to speak at those schools so that the kids there, the parents there, the teachers there have something to think about. and the goal is that, when i get home at the end of the day after speaking to that school, they're just not talking about those mental heaealth issues an

i still want to do more research.re even more likely to notice things that fit our beliefs. when there's a full moon people tell you there's more crime, more babies are born, hospital emergency rooms get busy, sometimes, somehow, the full moon makes people crazy. lots of people believe it, but just not true. and studies show there is no difference when the moon is full. but we notice the full moon and if we've heard the myth about the moon and violence, then when we hear the sirens, we make that connection, we remember that. and that's confirmation bias. and it's powerful, ask cops and nurses in hospital emergency rooms, even they believe there's more action when the moon is full. and all of this is a round about way of getting to a more important issue. america is going broke, and job growth has stalled. what's to be done? politicians claim they can address those problems by managing our economy. democrats say the reason unemployment is now finally fallen is because of all the government spending. politicians tell us

opposition researchers. they are volleyball is to dig up the dirty secrets the candidates don't want you to know. you may not know the researchers names, but you know their work because it's used to create attack ads like this infamous one. >> one was willie horton who murder add boy in a robbery stab stabbing him 19 times. despite a life sentence, horton received 10 wpped passes from piston. horton fled, kidnapped a young couple stabbing the man and repeatedly raping his girlfriend. weekend prison passes. dukakis on crime. >> that ad helped george herbert walker bush win the election. you may recall the prief eye that is gave the information for that ad, they are like bounty hunters. they spend hours combing through public records and hunting down deep background sources looking for that little spark in a candidate's background that can turn into a political fire. our guests tonight have been doing opposition research for close to two decades and they are dishing up some secrets of their own in their new bo

it's a core piece of our research for the united states research infrastructure with broad benefits to science, homeland security, medicine, industry. not only would the project develop the next generation of nuclear physics workforce as you know, but it will create thousands of jobs and really address our u.s. competitiveness and energy security. so we have to move forward. if we don't, other nations will. and they will be the ones attracteding the best and the brightest scientists and researchers, not the united states. as you know -- i've talked to you numerous times about this as have my colleagues in michigan. you've heard from the scientific community. i'd like to hear from you today what is the department of energy's level of commitment to this project? >> well, senator, yes, you certainly have talked to me many times, same which i think the entire michigan delegation it feels. we agree with you that it's a worthy scientific project. what we're trying to do is to try to figure out within the constraints of the nuclear physics budget in the office of science, how to best ap eight

until now, researchers have had pretty free reign. nobel prize quality discoveries are the result of unrestricted research and competition. society has to protect itself against highly virulent strains of bird flu, but it must balance that need against the threat of terrorism. that is why specific guidelines on how to handle sensitive scientific data are urgently needed. >> thank you, alex. >>> an earthquake that jolted a nation. a tsunami that swallowed a coastline. a nuclear plant that spiralled out of control. japan marks the first anniversary of the march 11th disaster. what lessons have been learned? find out on "newsline" starting monday, march 5th, then sunday, join us at 2:00 p.m. japan time for lessons of march 1 19, one year on. >> a teenager wielding a gun opened fire at a high school in the u.s. state of ohio. one student died and four others were wounded. the gunman shot the five students, four males and one female in the cafeteria of the high school east of cleveland. one 16-year-old male student died. the gunman was tak

and how we -- how we do more research, get more research into these areas, no doubt about it. so, you bring a very strong personal story. dr. pizzo said we need new innovative therapies that we may not know about. i think is that pretty pro found. we need new innovative therapies that we may not know about. so how many people do not know about 45 years of practice and treating people and honining th to a fine dregree on how you treat people with chronic pain -- i should not practice medicine without a license, but without a physical basis. and i think that doctor serno mentioned, the first thing to do is look at that, do you that first. and then, if there's nothing there then you have to move to a different modeality, this is my own statement. i think there's too many people in our societies, some of us are equipped somehow, different people think different ways. different people can cope with things differently and assess things differently and this is my own judgment, i think there's just too many people in our country that think there's a pill, a drug or a surgery that will

was it on purpose or just lack of research? >> well, since i already need a visa to get to harvard to let me inhe

frontier energy research centers? >> yeah, six or seven -- about the same time, roughly, maybe a little earlier. i think the bioresearch centers, again, i can get you the details, may have come a year or so before that. >> you were asking for an additional hub. there were five of them standing and you're asking for a sixth one? and in your testimony, you said electricity systems. can you tell me what you mean by electricity systems? >> well, if you look at the electricity system in the united states, it's a very complex organism, if you will, and -- >> it's a delivery system? >> it's a transmission and distribution system. it's the delivery system, it's the control of the flows of electricity, it's how do you -- as you work to go to a modern grid that you can control how you flow the electricity and you want to look at where there are potential vulnerabilities in the grid. >> would that hub be responsible for trying to figure out how to reduce greatly the loss of power over distance? the delivery of power in a much mo

all going to speak for about five to seven minutes, raid i raising some of the big questions and research areas that have yet to be explored and then we're going to open it for audience conversation, because we really want to invite you into this discussion. so, let me start with the introduction. up first will be my colleague at whittier college. joe is an associate professor and field librarian with special expertise in nixon material at whittier college's wards and libraries. his most recent article "under the table, michael wilson and the screen play for the bridge on the river quai" which appeared in the spring 2009 issue focused on the politics of the hollywood blacklist. the second speaker earned his master's degree at the university of illinois, chicago, under the direction of richard freid. after completing his graduate work, the professor has taught at various universities and colleges in chicago. he's now at the college of due page and he has researched and written about the career of richard nixon, concentrating on his career in congress. his dissertation topic was nixon in th

in some cases gao said it could be the va is handing money to research the same thing the naa asked another group to look at again the idea there is do we need two different groups looking at the same exact thing could we save a few million dollars and perhaps one data base where they can look and say who is doing breast cancer research and if they are don't hand out any more money. >> is this one thing reports issued, there was a report last year 172 recommendations reports issued congress will look at it i assume. >> congress always says they will look at it whether they vote on something that remains to be seen, increase leg as thee reports come out, -- increasingly as these reports come out, now that there is a list being drawn up almost every year think closer we are getting closer to the point where something will be done even if it is just a liver, you can save 2 billion. >>> ed o'keefe good to see you. >> all righty. >>> coming up new warnings for people who take statin drugs and more on that study about sleeping pills and their link to possible early death. neurologist is h

i don't think that's the goal. >> is stem cell research vital to the future you envision? >> i think it's very important because we're linked to understand gene expression. the long-term goal is actually something called transdifferentiation where i could take my skin cells and reprogram them, the heart cells or pancreatic cells if i needed that but stem cell research will teach us about how genes express themselves. being able to reprogram ourselves is a very important part of biotechnology, it's one of the major themes. >> dr. olshanski, you're a sociologist of distinction. do you expect red state-blue state clash? >> i don't understand red clash blue clash about immortality. >> can i help you out? red states, there's a certain religiosity i think that appears and that includes a certain fatalism, i am mutability, divine truth also. do you think there will be religious resistance to what we've been talking about on this program? >> i think there will be some religions that will not like the idea of tampering with the human genome and tampering with the fundamental biolog