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CAUCUS CO-CHAIRS:
Rep. Bill Foster (D-IL) and Rep. Jim Baird (R-IN)
The National Academies' Beyond Discovery™: The Path from Research to Human Benefit is a series of articles that trace the origins of important recent technological and medical advances. Each story reveals the crucial role played by basic science, the applications of which could not have been anticipated at the time the original research was conducted.