1.   And it is trying to keep up at a time when human experimentation has proliferated, with a doubling of the federal research budget in the past five years.

2.   And that means it misses out on federal research money that goes to colleges in states that abut the Great Lakes and the oceans.

3.   And President Clinton went along with it to direct some federal research dollars to the home state of Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt.

4.   Annual discretionary spending for federal research programs is a prime target for budget-driven cuts, and ATP nearly died on the House floor last year.

5.   As the federal research budget shrinks, and more research takes place outside universities, this may be a growing problem.

6.   A Houston-based company, applying federal research from Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, has developed an even higher-tech tracer.

7.   A premier federal research center, the National Cancer Institute, is under attack for its new study of whether silicone breast implants can trigger serious diseases in women.

8.   After months of review and consultation, Bush said last August that he would not allow federal research on embryonic stem cells other than those already available in laboratories.

9.   Afterward, the field withered and federal research funds largely dried up.

10.   But even with FDA approval, the researchers were unable to apply for federal research grants.