Beating around the bomb

Article Abstract:

The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) was originally set up in 1952 as a rival to the Los Alamos National Laboratory to conduct research in nuclear weapons and thermonuclear fusion. However, LLNL's weapons research now accounts for less than 30% of its research programmes. The laboratory has branched into almost every kind of applied science, environmental science and even contributes to the Human Genome Project. Much of its expansion can be traced to the efforts of a small part of its operation, the Laboratory Directed Research and Development Program, which nurtures the small, speculative projects in the interests of curiosity-driven research.

Management, History, United States. Department of Energy. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Government laboratories

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Talk of the town

Article Abstract:

The Scripps Research Institute is now under scrutiny by the National Institutes of Health for entering into a contract with Johnson and Johnson and with Sandoz, Ltd. Scripps, which recieves most of funds from federal sources, agreed to sell first rights to its discoveries to Johnson and Johnson for $10 million a year until 1997, when it will recieve from Sandoz, under a similar agreement, the sum of $30 million a year for ten years. However, the NIH is questioning the fact that a foreign company will get first bite at a $1.3 billion-worth of publicly funded research for an investment of $300 million.

Finance, Scripps Research Institute

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