Why Do We Do Basic Research? To

The Best Project Is One That Asks A Novel Question.

By Asking A Novel Question That You Don't Know The Answer To, You Discover Whether You Can Formulate A Way Of Finding The Answer, And You Stretch Your Own Mind, And Very Often You Learn Something New.

We Are Embedded In A Biological World And Related To The Organisms Around Us.

We Know Specific Genes Are Turned On In Specific Cells, But We Don't Know To What Extent This Happens.

Why Do We Do Basic Research? To Learn About Ourselves.