After figuring out what the dominant risk factors were among the participants who developed breast cancer, scientists designed a prediction model, now called the Gail model.
Its scientists have designed genetically modified mosquitoes that have one mission - to kill off the rest of their species.
In preparation for longer spaceflight, scientists have designed shields to deflect harmful energetic particles, and continue to study the ill-effect of weightlessness on astronauts.
NASA's scientists have designed a device that would be carefully sterilised, and would then melt its way down through the ice, allowing the melt-water to freeze behind it to prevent contamination.
The prototype spectacles have been designed by scientists at Tokyo's National Institute of Informatics.
But the Purina Pro Plan P5 app has been designed by scientists and proved by rescue dogs that just about any K9 can be trained to become an agility dog.
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Drug trials were poorly designed, and scientists hadn't paid attention to the all-important issue of drug delivery mechanisms, he says.
It was designed to get scientists to work out what was happening to the climate, and to get governments to sign off on the scientists' conclusions.
An important aspect of the PacX program is the PacX Challenge, a competition designed to encourage scientists and students to make use of the PacX data in interesting, productive, or innovative ways.
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In mid July, the New York Times accused the FDA of creating a massive e-mail surveillance program designed to net junior scientists and other critics who complained the agency was too-quick to approve medical devices that the employees maintained posed unacceptable health risks.
Originally, it was designed as a way for scientists at different universities and other institutes to share information.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency RadNet system is designed to protect the public by notifying scientists, in near real time, of elevated levels of radiation so they can determine whether protective action is required.
Called BMW Guggenheim Lab, the partnership is a six-year-long program designed to help architects, engineers, artists and scientists design new models for urban life worldwide.
Written by Oxford University scientists in collaboration with the ATLAS experiment at CERN, it is designed for use by experts and non-experts alike.
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Friday's meeting was designed to begin this process, with hopes that other scientists will find inconsistencies in the measurements and, hopefully, repeat the experiment elsewhere.
Designed by Creative's in-house team of audio scientists and engineers, Sound Core3D is engineered for low power consumption and high performance.
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Scientists are set to release the first batch of data from a project designed to create the first map of the human brain.
Mr Liebenberg's invention is designed to allow currently untapped expertise to be used when trained scientists are not around to note things down.
While pressure to publish is higher than ever given the aforementioned financial and non-financial rewards conferred on scientists claiming breakthrough results, nothing excuses the ethical transgressions Science Fraud was designed to uncover.
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Codon was founded a year ago on the idea that scientists would need a company that could sell tools used in creating such custom-designed biological systems (see: " Photoshop For DNA").
In 1999, a group of respected scientists, along with the American Chemical Society, launched a journal called Organic Letters, designed to rival Tetrahedron Letters, a chemistry title owned by Reed Elsevier.
The tags are designed to stay on the sharks for up to five years, which will provide scientists with a fuller picture of shark behaviour.
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Scientists playing in the synthetic-biology toolbox have also managed to make living cells do things nature never designed.
By contrast Prof Maurice Wilkes, who designed Edsac, began with the idea of making a machine that would be a workhorse for Cambridge scientists.
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