After experimenting with more than a dozen different formulations, drying them with custom-made machinery and heating them in ovens to test shelf life, Nektar hit upon a successful recipe that mixes insulin with glycine (an amino acid), citrate (the salt of an organic acid found in humans) and mannitol (a sugar used in intravenous products).

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Not only will the mission test how commercial, off-the-shelf tech can survive in the vacuum and conduct experiments, but it'll squeeze in some fun courtesy of apps developed by winners of a competition held last year.

ENGADGET

Because California has so many schoolchildren 5.8m of them, of whom 1.5m have only limited proficiency in English it needs, the teachers say, a special test of its own, and not one pulled willy-nilly off the national shelf.

ECONOMIST: Mine! No, mine!

In the attached article, entitled "Nukes: Test Them or Lose Them, " Secretary Schlesinger makes clear that the United States is taking potentially grave risks if it is unable realistically to test the effects of aging on a stockpile that is approaching the end of its designed shelf-life.

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