Dirks showed that some of the immature-looking cells from his patients could form tumorlike clumps in the test tube, unlike most other cells from the tumors, but he didn't have a method to pluck out the stem cells.

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In accordance with Casio's own standard with reference to the US MIL-STD-810F Method 516.5-Shock, the camera passed a test in which it was dropped from a height of 2.13 meters (7 feet) onto lauan plywood at 26 different angles.

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However, researchers from Utrecht University in the Netherlands devised a clever method for putting this assumption to the test.

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