The localization service may provide the user with search results in the form of web pages that list which retailers sell the desired product in the vicinity of the search origin.

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Zeneca ordered a "wet" copy of a promising gene, in the form of a clone -- a colony of bacterial cells whose members all carry the desired snippet of DNA. These bacterial guinea pigs can then be used to try out antibacterial chemicals.

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