The screening idea is in its early stages, and no date has been set, Feig said.

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Heart disease put the whole idea of risk screening on the map.

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Over the next day and a half, the idea of the screening trial combined with a larger study that comes later gathered steam.

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The idea is that pre-screening sites will streamline the process for siting power plants, reduce costs and enhance overall energy planning.

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The idea behind the regulations is to expedite screening and allow staffers to focus on threats like explosives and more serious weapons.

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Symyx got its start in 1994, the brainchild of Peter Schultz, a chemist who several years earlier at the University of California, Berkeley hit on the idea of applying the techniques of rapid drug-screening to materials science.

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Mass screening of this sort is not, itself, a new idea in the search for drugs, but extending it so that it can study effects on entire animals rather than just isolated cells should make it even more productive.

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In film, the process of coming up with an idea, developing it, securing financing and producing it, can take years from inspirational spark to a screening in a theatre.

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