Senator Boxer is part of a coalition to increase medical research to find cures for diseases.

While there have been some calls to increase research on this topic, others have called it "useless".

Leshner announced that his agency will increase research into club drugs and their effects by 40%, to $54 million.

Samsung also said it would hire 5,000 more engineers to increase research and development of new chips.

High on other lists is increased civilian research and development.

And the House passed a bill yesterday that would increase money and research on women's medical problems.

The nation needs to increase research on the elderly to at least $913 million, the report said.

It is necessary to increase research in fields such as recycling, climatic change and ocean pollution.

We must further increase scientific research into cures for diseases, whatever their nature.

He wants to increase research into the field and host a conference on edible insects in 2012.