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... However, the path that must be followed from basic discoveries such as these to applications that benefit society is often long and many times unclear. With the shortening time horizons of everyone from investors to financial analysts to developers of new products, investments in the basic research needed for future technological discoveries have Nanoparticle Drug Delivery nearly disappeared from the private sector.1 Meanwhile, the romantic view of a and Diagnostics in Health 6 solitary inventor toiling to develop a light bulb is growing increasingly removed from reality.
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