One reason for this is the lack of a rapid, sensitive, inexpensive screening method.

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Privacy rights groups are wary of movements to impose the anatomically revealing technology on all travelers as a primary screening method.

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Dr. Bluementhal developed an affordable, low tech screening method for cervical cancer that is likely to save tens of thousands of lives in third world countries over the next decade, and has the potential to save hundreds of thousands.

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Dr Lesley Walker, director of information at Cancer Research UK, said the potential for screening using this method was huge, but he said it was still early days.

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Does he intend to deploy the body imaging systems as the primary method of screening for all airports across the country?

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The method offers the promise of a rapid and precise screening of algae directly rather than the existing time-consuming, cumbersome and error-prone means for analyzing algae, and may prove pivotal in the development of a fuel industry based on algae.

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This method of testing new drug ideas against many thousand compounds - High Throughput Screening (HTS) - is likened to searching for a very small needle in a very large haystack.

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