The technology is being used by Myriad Proteomics , a joint venture with Hitachi and Oracle (nasdaq: ORCL - news - people ), to try to map the millions of proteins found in the human body.

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The airplane is a specially configured narrow body Boeing 757 ( click here for seat map) with a large business class section.

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That technology not only lets you see how the clothes will look on your body, but also provides a tension heat map to see precisely where an item fits too loosely or too tightly.

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It too has met with success, although a recent map promulgated by the Tech City Investment Organization, the body charged by the government with masterminding the development, that showed some 600 start-ups was met with some skepticism as companies that were not high-tech start ups had been included.

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Launched in September 2011, the spacecraft were designed to map tiny variations in the pull of gravity around the lunar body.

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Both firms were among the first to use computerized databases to scan the genome-the "map" or blueprint of 25, 000 or so active genes that contain the code for the body's proteins.

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