After a couple of days, the newly nucleated cell should have divided to form a ball of cells called a blastocyst.
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But in the first experiment we got a blastocyst and within a couple of months we already had an (embryonic) stem cell line.
The "first couple that we spoke to, the dad took out his cell phone and showed us a picture of his daughter, and I just about lost it, just by looking at the picture, " Kelly told ABC News.
We're doomed to days of dwindling cell phone batteries and interminable recharging times for at least a couple of more years.
As I was heading down Route 30 a couple of weeks earlier, returning from the hardware store in town, my cell phone warbled.
In fact, my opinions (at that time) were formed by marketing messages like the old Verizon ad with a couple of young teenagers and their parents talking about their new web-enabled cell phones.
Robbie Bach, president of Microsoft's entertainment and devices division, said the number of cell phones that can receive rich media ads is going to triple in the next couple of years.
Hyundai is set to announce plans to bring forward the mass production of hydrogen fuel cell cars, so we might see such vehicles on the road in just a couple of years.
Relatively well-off farmers who wanted the benefit of radio programs from the outside world could take batteries into town where they could be charged over a period of a couple of days, much as people journey to distant towns in Africa today to charge their cell phones at great expense.
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Similarly, if you look at what happened a couple of years ago, there were all kinds of crossover points that happened around the same time: more cell phones than landlines, more laptops than desktops, more debit cards than credit cards, more farmed fish than wild fish, more girls in college than boys.
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