However, there are still questions about the quality of stem cells produced using this method compared with embryonic stem cells.

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Patients who had the new method had a higher rate of strokes or near strokes at 1 year, amounting to an additional event for every 25 patients undergoing the new method compared with surgery.

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The study, which examines deals in America in 1962-2001, makes various adjustments to take account of the flaws and concludes that mergers created, on average, combined gains to shareholders of 7.3%, compared with the gains identified by the old method of 5.3%.

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One trial of 113 patients showed 58% had good brain function after three months, compared with 33% of those treated with the coil method, as well as a lower death rate.

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The Curiosity team compared their formation to the fractionation that occurred in the old colonial method of making apple jack liquor.

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According to the Harvard Injury Control Research Center, 85% of attempted suicides using guns are fatal, compared to only 2% of attempts by a far more common method, drug overdose.

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Dr. Sen Kim claims to have achieved the separation of Hydrogen using just 0.1kwh of energy compared to the traditional 4 - 4.5kwh required using the ol' electrolytic method.

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Dr. Kim postulates that "manufacturing the H2 by our method will lower the cost of H2 as much as 20 - 30 times" compared to electrolytic H2.

ENGADGET: Korean tech makes hydrogen up to 30 times cheaper to produce -- clean energy solved?