Blog Comments

Kinetica Online is pleased to provide direct links to commentaries from our senior editor Dr. Steven Pelech has posted on other blogs sites. Most of these comments appear on the GenomeWeb Daily Scan website, which in turn highlight interesting blogs that have been posted at numerous sites in the blogosphere since the beginning of 2010. A wide variety of topical subjects are covered ranging from the latest scientific breakthroughs, research trends, politics and career advice. The original blogs and Dr. Pelech’s comments are summarized here under the title of the original blog. Should viewers wish to add to these discussions, they should add their comments at the original blog sites.

The views expressed by Dr. Pelech do not necessarily reflect those of the other management and staff at Kinexus Bioinformatics Corporation. However, we wish to encourage healthy debate that might spur improvements in how biomedical research is supported and conducted.

Applied research

A Bargain Made

Blogger Ananyo Bhattacharya at The Guardian 's Notes & Theories blog wrote that conventional thinking in science policy, which promotes a utilitarian view that research should be at the heart of sustainable economic growth and should serve the public interest, can result a dramatic undervaluation of basic research. S. Pelech comments that especially in the last 50 years, governments throughout the developed world have steadily built up their basic research capacities in the life sciences in universities, hospitals and government laboratories, but the translational gap between basic and applied research appears to have continued to widen. He explores the various reasons for this disconnect. Read More...