Detective Superintendent Simon Clarke, who is heading the new investigation into the 38-year-old mother-of-four's death said he was confident advances in science, together with fresh witness statements, would help to finally solve the crime.
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Martin had entered what technology transfer officers refer to as the valley of death, the barren gulf between the basic science and a prototype good enough to pique the interest of an established company or a venture capital firm.
Around 1910, medical science began to get a handle on death in childbirth, and the sex ratio began falling.
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But science has discovered that plants do indeed respond to death and harm with an output of energy.
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She, like a number of scientists, has received death threats, and recently launched a campaign called Respect the Science.
Her death comes as many of the companies that hoped to use cloning science to develop human medical treatments are struggling for survival, or simply going out of business.
Currently medical science can only determine the existence of the brain disease after death.
Experts from the Public Health Laboratory Service revealed the death and the outbreak of the bug at the British Association Festival of Science meeting on Monday.
In other words, if ageing humans can be patched up for 30 years, he argues, science will have developed sufficiently to make further repairs more effective, postponing death indefinitely.
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The life-and-death question is whether these efforts and the largesse of Eli Broad and other patrons of science will be enough to let the U.S. lead the stem-cell revolution.
Dimitri Itskov is head of the 2045 initiative, which he hopes can conquer death once and for all, in just 23 years, via the miracle of modern science.
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In 1971 he founded a journal called Annals of Clinical and Laboratory Science, which he was helping to edit up to a few weeks before his death.
Professor Alexander Trees and his team from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and the University of Liverpool's faculty of veterinary science, found that killing bacteria which are abundant in the worm tissues leads to its death.
The phenomenon of sedimentary layers is remarkably similar to what is seen on Earth, in California's Death Valley or in Montana's Glacier National Park, says John Grotzinger, chief scientist of the Mars Science Laboratory mission.
But it would have added something to have examined more systematically the differences between cases where the science is clear (ozone after 1987) and where there was a fair amount of hype (forest death through acid rain).
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