Jeju is scientifically valuable for its extensive system of lava tubes (also known as lateral volcanoes or in Korean as Oreum).
Yet new research suggests that the very property that makes these tumors sinister - their ability to spawn human tissues - makes them valuable scientifically.
These sculptures look so artistically conventional today that it is hard to imagine seeing them as scientifically valuable studies of racial and ethnic types.
"They can't demonstrate within any range of certainty that their vaccine is scientifically valuable."
A Scandinavian study uses a randomisation scheme which will probably prevent the group from obtaining a scientifically valuable result.
Action is now needed to prevent this scientifically valuable creature becoming extinct, say the researchers writing in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The sinking of ships in shallow waters during wartime has created many artificial coral reefs, which can be scientifically valuable and have become an attraction for recreational divers.
The site had been previously known to private collectors, who had already removed a considerable number of fossils, some of which may have been scientifically valuable.
Paleontologists say that Sue is the most complete and scientifically valuable fossil of a Tyrannosaurus rex ever found.
I mean, the data was valuable scientifically, but the weapons project didn't pan out.