In a lab-based simulated shopping experience, 42 mothers selected foods and beverages whose prices kept changing.
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These results suggest the technique could have future research possibilities in developing lab-grown organs.
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Giffords has a service dog -- Nelson, a golden lab -- with her at all times.
It aims to bring together advances in artificial intelligence, wireless sensing, imaging diagnostics, lab-on-a-chip, and molecular biology.
But it is hard for them also to claim that the Jenkins report is a Lab-Lib stitch-up.
We went through a lab -- they had robots, they had computers with vectors and this and that.
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Lab-grown tissue has the potential to transform medicine, though it is still a long way from routine clinical use.
That pattern of signals will have to be replicated for the lab-made heart.
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Forgacs says lab-grown meat is becoming increasingly necessary as the world struggles to cope with an unsustainable meat industry.
In the 1990s, Russian chemist Sergey Bachurin showed it had potential for improving cognition in a variety of lab-animal tests.
He next plans to use lab-made tissue and see if he can successfully treat a degenerative, blindness-causing eye disease in monkeys.
We already have Watson, the lab-on-a-chip tech is a few years out as well ( see the Qualcomm Tricorder X Prize).
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Besides mixing, Dr Wixforth also showed how SAWs could channel fluids as part of more complex tasks on so-called microfluidic lab-on-a-chip devices.
By comparison, current lab-quality microscopes can cost tens of thousands of dollars.
But a new breakthrough from Harvard researchers has produced the first "cyborg" tissue, created by embedding functional, biocompatible nanowires into lab-grown flesh.
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It has been producing lab-created fancy colored diamonds (primarily yellow diamonds) for some time, with limited acceptance by the jewelry industry and consumers.
What was once a hobbyist's dream gadget is now being used to produce faux arteries for lab-grown tissue and Magic Arms.
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The number of new cases are up 56% on the number reported this time last year, and the total lab-confirmed toll now stands at 4, 407.
After all, no question of morality seems to escape the attention of the lab-coat crowd these days, confident that science can unravel every human mystery.
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Kuekes said his molecular memory chip should be lab-ready by 2001.
By comparison, lab-quality microscopes can cost tens of thousands of dollars.
However, Forgacs is not the only scientist working on lab-grown meat.
Quake must outrace rivals doing similar work at dozens of university labs, as well as such firms as Caliper Technologies, that are pursuing different lab-on-a-chip technologies.
From what I can tell there is no trace of any market leader in eye-tracking being a partner of Samsung, which points to an in-house, lab-based solution.
The Health Protection Agency said there were 3, 877 lab-confirmed cases up to 30 December - but for each confirmed case there are another 288 infections which go unreported.
Most of the infected ferrets recovered from the lab-made virus.
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"The dominant model of science is one of aggressive individual or lab-based competition to break new ground and get the most convincing arguments supported by evidence, " he told me.
The NIH has contended that despite the federal ban, it is legal for federally funded researchers to use those lab-grown stem cells because the scientists never touched the original embryos.
Physicians prescribe the recommended medication about 69 percent of the time, follow appropriate lab-testing recommendations about 62 percent of the time and follow appropriate surgical guidelines 57 percent of the time.
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