The Health Protection Agency (HPA) said laboratory reports of the virus had recently risen from 48 in week 43 of 2012 to 114 reports by week 45.

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And in the current issue of Applied Physics Letters, a group led by Haroun Ahmed at the Hitachi Cambridge Laboratory in Britain reports another vital step, a single-electron transistor that, for the first time, amplifies its input signal (though only by a factor of 3.7, several hundred times more weakly than a conventional transistor does).

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In December, he introduced an expanded computer database that lets Camden doctors view laboratory results, radiology reports, emergency-room visits, and discharge summaries for their patients from all the hospitals in town and could show cost patterns, too.

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As of April 19, 2013, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Planet Quest website reports 851 confirmed planets and 2781 candidates, totaling as many as 3, 632 exoplanets.

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In the Taishan ruling, he cited reports from experts including Sandia National Laboratory showing that sulfur fumes escaping the tainted wallboard can cause pitting in wires and copper pipe as well as heating and air conditioning systems.

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The sequel to the multi-award winning 2007 Portal game pits the player against GLaDOS, the AI bad guys behind the laboratory setup featured in the first game, PC World reports.

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Dava Newman of the Man Vehicle Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) told BBC News that reports indicate that the Pingvin is uncomfortable.

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