In that year it was examined, along with 1, 212 similar samples, by Andre Nahmias of Emory University, in Atlanta.

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In the Republic of Ireland, a similar study of samples bought in Dublin restaurants, shops and supermarkets revealed that a quarter of products labelled as cod or haddock were in fact completely different species.

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He said similar tests run on samples from a mobile phone showed that they were more than six billion times more likely to have come from Mr Shivers than another person.

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Analysis on worldwide DNA samples suggested the results were similar regardless of a person's geographic ancestry.

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One switched Branagan's samples of metallic glass with similar-looking Christmas tinsel.

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Using sterile swab kits, forensic scientists in cases similar to the one near Annecy would be expected to take samples from the car door handles, the steering wheel, the mirrors.

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The back-combing and gluing of the feathers seems very similar to the two dead birds we have previously recovered and had samples returned for.

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In both samples, accounts run with input from financial advisors offer lower returns than those run by similar investors without such input.

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Similar testing in other states, including California and Washington, has shown comparable levels of iodine-131 in rainwater samples.

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Dr Boerma reviewed the results of population-based general-health surveys similar to Kenya's that were carried out in Zambia and Mali, and also a study based on saliva samples that was carried out in South Africa.

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