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White House Report Urges $700M Annual Boost for Ag Science
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – A White House-appointed advisory council wants the federal government to boost its investments into agricultural research by an extra $700 million per year and to take steps to realign its funding to address several important scientific challenges.
PCAST Urges More R&D Funding, Deregulation and Tax Credits to Save US Innovation
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – A White House-appointed panel said today that if the US is to continue to be the global leader in technology and innovation then the federal government needs to take actions to keep it that way, by spending more on basic research, encouraging more industry investments
White House Council Receives Synthetic Biology Report
The President's science advisory council today heard from a leader of Obama's bioethics commission on its synthetic biology recommendations.