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zWhat’s
the balance of the nation’s research portfolio?
yA
dramatic shift towards the biomedical sciences in
the past 20 years, accelerating in the past 5 years
xBiomedical research is important
xBut it relies critically on advances in other
fields, such as physics,
engineering, and information technology
yThere
is broad agreement that the nation’s R&D portfolio
has become unbalanced
[NSF data analyzed by AAAS, 2003]