When Google was outfitting its 12 self-driving cars, it likely used off-the-shelf sensors designed for industrial, military, or laboratory use.
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Other members of my laboratory will use techniques such as force spectroscopy and single-molecule assays to further investigate the compounds that I screen, providing a more complete picture of the actions of these compounds.
The overall goal of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission is to use 10 instruments on Curiosity to assess whether areas inside Gale Crater ever offered a habitable environment for microbes.
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Even while the library represents an enormous investment in careful archiving of print books, it also includes a nod to the paperless future: a well-outfitted preservation and digitization laboratory that librarians will use to scan in books, maps, manuscripts and photographs.
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The National Renewable Energy Laboratory estimates that the use of soybean B100, which is 100 percent biodiesel, in urban transit buses reduces net carbon dioxide emissions by 78 percent and reduces lifecycle petroleum consumption by 95 percent, which takes into account fuel required to cultivate crops, refine and transport the biodiesel.
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And did it follow good laboratory practice and can we then use it to set a regulatory guideline?
We also use the store as our own little testing laboratory which will help our online site.
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However, he did add that at least some of the return could take the form of equipment procured for use on the space station's European science laboratory, Columbus.
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Once embryos are created by in-vitro fertilisation and still growing in the laboratory, it is possible to pluck a cell or two from them and use molecular probes to pinpoint defective genes.
In October the Oak Ridge National Laboratory announced an effort to build the world's fastest supercomputer, which will use AMD Opteron chips and 18, 000 of Nvidia's graphics-processing units.
Some exceptionally tech-savvy young men, the report found, won the hearts of women simply by impressing them with the use of their hi-tech tool, labelled natching by the Future Laboratory.
Mr Lansley says he will draw the review team's attention to the work of the Surgical Materials Testing Laboratory based in Bridgend, after Ms Griffiths suggested the English NHS might wish to use it.
Gary Thorgaard, director of Washington State University's School of Biological Sciences and a co-author of the paper, says the experiments in his laboratory and others have shown it is possible to reverse the sex of trout embryos through the use of hormones.
Result of routine laboratory tests showed no significant changes, suggesting that there were no side-effects associated with the use of aromatherapy.
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But Prof Partha Mitra, a neuroscientist at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York state, says we need to be aware of the limitations of the technology in use.
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Concern about possible dire health effects from using cell phones stems in large part from the publicizing of certain results from human and laboratory studies as well as from stories about individuals who developed a brain tumor after years of cell phone use.
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