Corning will take advantage of this opportunity by innovating and producing even more cutting edge technology glass which will be thinner, more damage resistant and eco-friendly.

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Which leads to the nub of the issue: it is hard to work out exactly how much damage resistant worms are doing, and thus how much effort should be put into trying to stop the spread of resistance not least because, as Dr Kaplan found out when he conducted his survey, the data are pretty sporadic.

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By distributing engines and generators around a ship, designers can make it more resistant to damage.

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Doctors found extensive lung damage and diagnosed drug-resistant TB.

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"In really sick people it can cause quite serious damage and it's quite resistant to antibiotics as well, " he told the programme.

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The researchers, led by Dr Lawrence Serfaty, found patients with severe OSA were more insulin-resistant and were more likely to have liver damage, compared to people of the same weight who did not have the sleep disorder.

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Gore went on to decry corporate decisions to develop herbicide-resistant crops and a bacterium that could prevent commercially crippling frost damage to crops.

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There were concerns the development pesticide-resistant GM crops meant consumers were being exposed to increasingly toxic residues, some of which could damage embryos in the womb.

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