The research part would be ideal. The problem is funding. Even the tiniest of experiments with proper documentation is 30k. No serious researcher will even touch a tiny project like that, the reason is that it's not enough time and money to work on the case. Trust me on this even if you don't trust me on anything else I say, you're looking at 200-300k for a decent study with a couple grads and a professor. This is a minimum. Now enter corporate interests which can usually come-up with this sort of money much more easily, now enter the human factor of benefactor and recipiant and voila a small taint on the outcome of the study. (Results can be interpreted in a million and a half ways from the same set of data).
So unless we can crowd source say 500k and get this going that way..........
How do I know the above holds true, I've been there and done that from the corporate angle. (This isn't winning me any friends here but its the sad truth about research today).