1.   These are matters well known to everybody, with the details easily available in any basic biology book.

2.   Basic biology.

3.   But Mucke said the cancer research at least provides a head start in understanding the basic biology.

4.   By understanding the basic biology of lacewing dormancy, the Taubers devised a way to induce dormancy at will.

5.   However, she said, her case illustrates how advances in very basic biology can pay off years later in unexpected ways.

6.   Human genes bear a humbling similarity to the genes of lesser creatures, and tinkering with animals is the accepted way of trouble shooting the basic biology of disease.

7.   If successful, Gleevec will be among the first fruits of some three decades of investment in research into the basic biology of cancer.

8.   If the finding does hold up, the experts said, it will have profound implications for basic biology, overturning conventional ideas of how biological clocks are set.

9.   Nevertheless, scientists say that they still do not understand the basic biology of this process, and that huge hurdles still remain.

10.   Other researchers, like Dr. David Anderson of Caltech, are trying to understand the basic biology of neural stem cells.