While happy with the results, Raptopolous believes the concept needs more testing before commercial or civilian deployment can be considered.

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Forward-looking statements include, among others, statements that refer to completion of in-orbit testing, final integration and entry into commercial service.

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The three entrepreneurs extolling their alternative energy projects showed three phases of how an idea can turn into a commercial success: pre-production, production and testing, and full production.

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The researchers in the Science Translational Medicine paper, working directly with Illumina, first developed a diagnostic test that captured 600 genes that were likely to be the reason the babies wound up in the NICU. That panel is being sold as a kit by Illumina and will likely be used by some commercial laboratories that have government certifications to do diagnostic testing.

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But since that time, both countries have stopped testing altogether, believing that such actions jeopardize the commercial and scientific uses of space.

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They point to the European Union's decision to impose compulsory testing on all shipments of long grain rice from the US, after commercial supplies were found to be contaminated with GM strains.

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"We want an environment that is conducive to testing, " says Patricia Grace Smith, associate administrator for FAA's Commercial Space Transportation division.

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Bayer and its corporate predecessors stand accused of developing and testing a genetically modified strain of rice that contaminated the U.S. commercial rice supply, leading rice companies around the world to restrict U.S. rice imports and rice prices to drop.

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