Current techniques involve drilling sample holes at numerous locations within a vineyard.

ECONOMIST: Winemaking and radar

Then they combined their findings with earlier surveys, which used other detection techniques, to create a statistical sample of stars and the planets that orbit them, which they say is representative of the galaxy.

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It is hoped the techniques will revolutionise medicine by using a sample of person's skin to create stem cells.

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Both the spin valves and the paraphernalia of channels needed to feed a sample to them are built onto silicon wafers using the same techniques employed to make microprocessors.

ECONOMIST: Labs on a chip

Using DNA sequencing and other techniques, they obtained genetic profiles from as many as nine places in one sample from the original tumor and three from sites where the tumor had spread, or metastasized.

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This workshop introduced the participants to the key concepts of the Convention, community-based inventorying methods, free-prior-informed consent in the process of inventorying, creative processes and techniques of generating and systematizing information with the community, a community-driven sample inventorying framework and much more.

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The study's genetic analysis was carried out using conventional chemical techniques, which make it possible to spot the presence of two or three genes in a particular sample.

ECONOMIST: An un-killer app

Only when Centers for Disease Control and Prevention scientists sent a suspect sample to the mass spectrometer did they discover the new variety of swine flu, according to an article describing the techniques in Science magazine.

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