The skeleton was found with grave goods including brooches and hundreds of amber and decorated glass beads.
The basket is made from thousands of brightly coloured glass beads that have been threaded on to fine wires.
Among the notable objects here are two hand-carved Mbari figures and a headdress made of glass beads and cotton.
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The material to be tested is liquefied and passed through a filter made up of glass beads which are coated with the antibodies.
Inside the chamber are hundreds of glass beads, each coated with millions of antibodies that stick to the kind of bacteria you are testing for, say Salmonella.
The grave, which dated back to the Roman Conquest, contained a body buried in a crouched position, two brooches, an armlet, copper tweezers, coins and glass beads.
Breadfruit plants would be dug up in Tahiti-he'd tasted the strange fruit when a native had traded one for a string of glass beads-and then be transported to the West Indies.
By 2003 Illumina scientist Kevin Gunderson invented a chemical process that allowed Illumina to get more-accurate results, even as it packed more DNA on a chip. (Instead of the lithography that Affymetrix uses, Illumina affixes DNA to tiny glass beads packed in the chip.) "I've been in the analytical sciences for 30 years, and I've never seen anything this accurate, " says John W. Hooper, chief executive of Quebec gene-finding firm Genizon, an Illumina customer.
They were topped with a large centre bow edged with red glass bugle beads, crystals and three emerald shaped crystals.
The artist noted the significance of showing in New York "Precious Stonewall" (2010), a block tower of blown-glass bricks draped in beads hand-cut in India.
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The pieces that have become this French artist's signature oversize necklaces of glossy, fist-sized beads of Murano glass are strung in loops fit for a cartoon giant or just large enough to orbit a person head to foot.
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Pull up a chair, pour yourself a glass, and don some plastic beads.
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