Karen Addington, chief executive of Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, has type-one diabetes.
Only four U.S. states -- California, Michigan, Louisiana and Rhode Island -- ban any type of cloning research, both publicly and privately funded.
This funding supports exactly the type of long-term, speculative research that leads to new markets but which will not be financed by the private sector.
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"The results of the research encourage me to believe that the use of an SAT-type test could complement achievement tests such as A-levels and could broaden intake to British universities without lowering standards, " he said.
Recent research on 34 obese type 2 diabetic patients showed that almost three-quarters of those who underwent gastric bypass surgery showed no clinical signs of type 2 diabetes after two years.
Just today, Life Technologies announced that it is expects to increase the speed of its smaller, cheaper DNA 10-fold in just six months, illustrating how a war between makers of DNA-sequencing gear is driving the science behind this type of research.
Research into a self-cooling can for beer or soda led to a new type of packet, called "NanoCool, " to chill injectable drugs for up to a week.
Commenting on the results, Dr Matthew Hobbs, head of research at Diabetes UK, said the link between sugar-sweetened soft drinks and Type-2 diabetes persisted even when body mass index was taken into account.
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The field of cancer research is moving rapidly away from defining a cancer by where it is in the body - one type of breast cancer can have more in common with an ovarian cancer than another cancer in the breast.
According to research by CEB, a member-based advisory firm, 90% of the organizations they surveyed had some type of data breach in the past year.
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This type of grid-level storage is a priority for the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy, or ARPA-E, program.
Around 68% of Carlyle's private-equity funds have exceeded the median fund return for their type, according to Preqin, a research firm.
The question for many now is whether that type of growth can continue absent idea-generator Jobs, new products and with intensifying competition from Research In Motion ( RIMM), Samsung ( SSNHY), and others.
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