Stem cells have enormous therapeutic potential, and consequently erasure has become an intensely active research area, as well as attracting interest from the pharmaceutical industry.

In fact, it will probably be two to three years before either research area produces a workable device.

It was an exceptionally rich research area first for fundamental physics and then three, four years later the applications started to come quicker than mushrooms after rain.

The potential for new media to shape practices of social care both organisationally and individually has been a longstanding research area.

He was considered a pioneer in establishing international business as a research area.