One map we produced showed cell phone towers in the county, and the estimated coverage of those towers.

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Anyone can send information to the map, using a cell phone or email.

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We want to create the road map of the future of adult stem cell research.

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Okolloh found a way to get thousands of people to map the locations of violence, using email and cell phones.

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Scientists analyzed calls and texts involving almost 15 million Kenyan mobile phone subscribers, nearly 12, 000 cell towers, and 692 different settlements and correlated that data with a map of malaria cases.

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The new Brain Activity Map project hopes to understand and classify every signal from every cell in our grey matter, identifying where everything from thoughts, feelings and inspiration originate -- at a level beyond anything currently underway.

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In a conference room next door Jerry Jr. pored over a geologic map of a ski resort the Falwells plan to build on Candlers Mountain, cell phone pressed to his ear as he debated with a real estate partner whether to use artificial snow for the slopes.

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In reality, DNA is twisted and folded up inside the cell nucleus, with the result that bits of the molecule that seem far apart on a map are actually next to each other in the nucleus.

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