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Conducted by decision of the American Congress, reducing the state budget begin to be felt by American scientists. Last week, the results of a survey of 3,700 science workers conducted by the American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology were published. The report entitled “unlimited potential, elusive opportunities,” in particular, states that up to 20% of respondents seriously consider the possibility of moving to another country to continue their scientific career in connection with budgetary scientific problems in the United States.
Director of National Health Institutions (NIH) Francis Collins in a recent interview with the newspaper Huffington Post, talking about the influence of budgetary reductions on the research conducted in NIH, gave the development of a universal flu vaccine as an example of lost opportunities. “Translated into the language of real numbers, this means that people will die from the flu and five years later, because we still do not have such a universal vaccine,” he said and added: “35 thousand people die from influenza every year. God forbid in the next five years a new global flu pandemic will break out, to develop a specific vaccine from which it will take a long time ... If we had a universal vaccine, it would also work in this case too. ”
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According to the recently published statistics of the Ministry of Higher Education and Science of France, the number of scientists in the country over a decade from 2000 to 2010 increased by as many as 42% and reached 240 thousand. This corresponds to an average growth of 3.8% per year. The corresponding indicator for Germany is 2.4%, and for the UK - 3.8%. It is important to note that as of 2010, 58% of French researchers worked in the private sector, which continues to ensure a predominant part of scientific employment. The number of researchers in the public sector grew by only 1.25% per year and increased over a decade from 2000 to 2010 by only 13.7%, while in the private sector these indicators are much higher: 6.6 and 72.7%, respectively.
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