The result, says Dickinson, is a uniformity of temperature across all the samples being tested to within 0.1 degree Celsius.
But it requires a huge amount of energy to change the temperature quickly, and the temperature isn't always precisely uniform across all the samples in the instrument.
Instead of giving them all away the samples, it gave away just 40, 000 to its biggest fans.
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"If they want to investigate ... they should have already taken all the tissue samples, " he said.
"We were able to discriminate all of the samples correctly, " he said.
The team reached the lake's waters during the last drilling season, on Feb. 5, but the few microbes it found in the retrieved samples were all contaminants from the drilling apparatus.
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The samples come in at all hours of the day and night and are handed over in all sorts of containers according to the doctors who tell us some samples are viable while others have to be thrown away.
And the bonus is there are audio samples for almost all the recordings.
All the polling firms selected their samples using a technique known as quota sampling.
The samples contain all the claims for each of the patients selected and track them through the years.
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Because he manages Das Racist, in addition to everything else on his plate, Suri dealt with all of the paperwork, clearing samples and dealing with lawyers who wanted to make sure various producers got their share of the pie.
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To get a view on global temperatures that long ago, the researchers studied 73 sediment and polar ice samples, taken from all over the globe.
When Mr. Armstrong returned to cycling in 2008, antidoping officials began collecting data from the testing samples of all cyclists and looking for abnormalities.
They sequenced all the DNA they could get from samples, looking first for variations of a gene called 16S, which is not present in humans but can be used as a fingerprint for different species of bacteria.
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With the recent bans on giveaways of formula samples in some hospitals, it's all the more important that the medical community have the tools and knowledge to help mothers breastfeed -- or to figure out why they can't.
About half of the 100 samples -- all shot by hunters -- tested positive for lead, he said.
All 38 samples were tested to measure the activity of the 6, 817 human genes that are recognised by the chip.
Lundin also believes that large-scale digitization of all tissue samples will also allow for the development of a whole new field of image-based analysis methods.
At the health department, they were told that all the shareholders of the company would have to provide chest X-rays, and, in the most surreal demand of all, stool samples.
It might take holidays like this to crack open the best samples from our vast, national, collective archive, but that makes it all the more special.
"It all started when I was given affected samples from the nurseries in Wloszczowa, " Prof Kowalski said.
"It is my understanding that the samples were received at the laboratory with all tamper resistant seals intact, " Laurenzi said.
Paul Hancock of the facility said of eight food samples tested so far "all are negative for equine DNA".
Steinhardt said he worries that not all state laws clearly specify what types of tests police can conduct on the DNA samples collected from inmates and crime scenes.
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To convince wary airline executives that carbon-fiber body material was strong, Boeing sales teams carried samples and hammers, letting airline executives whack the composite with all their might.
In a report published late Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine, samples from three patients -- all of whom died -- had mutations that have previously been shown to increase transmissibility, and to help the virus grow in a mammal's respiratory tract.
McKee immunostained samples of his brain tissue, and saw big splotches of tau all over the frontal and temporal lobes.
These samples were run through a mass spectrometer - a device that effectively measures all the masses of the chemical compounds in the breath.
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