One common method was to cover small gold particles with genetic material and shoot them into the nucleus of the plant cell with a pressure gun.

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Thus, the researchers reckon that when a tumour cell is under pressure from foreign toxins it starts to make more vaults to help get rid of the unwelcome molecules.

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"I don't see it as a compromise, but as a transitional step" to a "full blown" policy of federally financing embryonic stem cell research, Doerflinger said, adding that if researchers found the experiments on the small number of cell lines promising, they would want to create even more cell lines, and that would create pressure to allow tax dollars to be used for more experiments.

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Other scientists took note, and pressure arose to ease the restraints on stem-cell labs.

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The research could put pressure on big drug companies to wade into the ethically complicated field of stem-cell research.

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When a person wearing the shirt applies pressure to the shirt's millimeter-thick cloth, the shirt captures the strength and location of the pressure with sensors sewn into its fabric and transmits the hug via Bluetooth to a cell phone.

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