Their ultimate goal is to develop a fast technique that can be used to start repairing the heart on the operating table immediately following a heart attack, ultimately improving the survival rates for heart attack patients.

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But Prof Xu cautioned that science still had work to do to develop a safe technique of delivering genes into the human brain.

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Diversa has used this technique to develop a valuable enzyme used for cleaning oil wells, and Maxygen has developed enzymes used in industrial production and for the manufacture of other drugs.

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Give people like us a few years to develop that style and technique, because we are still simply not good enough.

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A., set out to use a far-out technique called antisense to develop antiviral drugs.

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With this project she will develop a new label-free biomolecular detection method, based on a technique called Plasmon Resonance Energy Transfer (PRET), to monitor biochemical pathways involved in the differentiation of stem cells.

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