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Laser Finds, Destroys Tumors Non-Invasively
Researchers are using ultra-short light pulses in the form of a femtosecond laser to find, map and non-invasively destroy cancerous tumors.
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Lifelong Protester
(8,421 posts)Good news.
katsy
(4,246 posts)HOWEVER Taxpayers must claim some ownership of this research as we, collectively, contributed tax dollars to make this happen.
http://www.utk.edu/tntoday/2009/09/04/ut-knoxville-external-research-funding-doubles-for-fy-2009/
http://www.examiner.com/article/governor-s-exercise-shows-how-dependent-tennessee-is-on-the-federal-government
So... when some "pulled myself up by my lonesome" type free marketeer wants to commercialize this great technology, I would hope they also want to pay their fair share in taxes to encourage even more research and development in America's future.
It would be helpful if they signed a legal document acknowledging government's contribution to their success. So many of these successful businesspeople seem to forget that people, by their tax contributions, help support their own dreams and successes.
ohgeewhiz
(193 posts)negotiate deals on their patents, and rights to inventions, so that millions of dollars do flow into universities, mostly the big name ones, like Harvard, etc. They do invent stuff, or develop a patent, and they get millions from the efforts of a few professors and dozens of low-paid graduate students who worked 8-20 years in developing something, sometimes from federal grant money, or from private corporate grants.
I can't give many examples, but they are out there, where a university or college shares patent and royalty rights with corporations, drug companies, electronics firms, aerospace, aviation, etc. Then the corporation plays "hide the penny" in tax dodges with the feds for the next 50 years.
Tuesday Afternoon
(56,912 posts)FourScore
(9,704 posts)WooHoo!
Am I jaded or what? I apologize. It sounds fantastic. But, honestly, if I had a buck for every promising cancer thread I've seen her on DU that never happened...