Some labs grew more adept than others at exploiting the payment scheme.
Some labs, in conjunction with SimpleCare, are also providing customers substantial discounts on tests, since they, too, are eager to avoid the paperwork nightmare.
Some genome labs in reporting results will only include information about genes linked to diseases that have known treatments or prevention strategies.
Samsung put software from NXP Software and SRS Labs in some recent smartphones and tablets.
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The group is not rated on how many papers it produced, a metric used by some university and corporate labs.
Maybe the changes Kindler is making, including reorganizing the research labs, sending some top executives into retirement and cutting the sales force, will make things better.
Going deeper down the rabbit hole, Radiator Labs is exploring some nifty technologies such as an Xbee mesh network, which it's using to evaluate the energy-saving benefits at play.
And there are some 5, 000 little independent labs remaining that collectively control about 20%, each one a potential acquisition.
Pfizer has seen its stock under-perform some of its peers like Abbott Labs and Merck as the company continues to struggle with various lawsuits and complaints.
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Medicare was urged by the labs to cross walk some average price being paid to existing tests to the new codes (perhaps a median or weighted average of the stacks being used, which CMS would be able to measure).
After putting our rears in the seat of a Porsche 911 and turning our questionable English into even more questionable Spanish, Ma Bell gave us a glimpse at some super rough devices fresh from the labs.
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The directive obliges national authorities to carry out regular inspections of labs that use animals - and some of the visits must be unannounced.
The Fund for the Replacement of Animals in Medical Experiments (Frame) which wants to moderate some of the uses and methods employed in labs has questioned the merits of the project with the UK's Animal Procedures Committee.
Already, some doctors are saying the drug giant's research labs seem to have reawakened.
In return, he takes some of what he learns about prototyping back to Intel Labs, which does research in a variety of futuristic computing fields.
When crime labs are part of the police department, some forensic experts make mistakes out of an unconscious desire to help their "clients, " the police and prosecution.
Some years later, Claude Shannon (also of Bell Labs) would consolidate many of the prevailing ideas on the subject in his 1948 paper "A Mathematical Theory of Communication" which would reference the work of Nyquist significantly.
That is the multibillion-dollar question facing Nest Labs, a well-funded start up founded by some of the engineers and programmers who brought you the iPod.
In some ways, Google represents the internet-era equivalent of Bell Labs or Xerox PARC legendary corporate research outfits that shaped the evolution of technology in earlier periods.
"Some of the great places of invention were the old industrial research labs, " says Arthur Molella, director of the Smithsonian's Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation.
Earlier this year the defence secretary, Des Browne, suggested that representatives from the weapons labs of all five official nuclear powers meet to see if some of the technologies mastered for weapons building could in future be turned to verification tasks.
And while some virtual worlds have discouraged the exchange of game money for dollars, Linden Labs condones the practice.
Yes, touch computing has been around for a little while now, and while that benefits companies such as Synaptics (SYNA), Silicon Labs (SLAB) and Cypress Semiconductor (CY), its some of the newer ones that caught my fancy.
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This is especially important because some experts think the next wave of genetically modified crops may come from government-funded labs as well as industry ones.
To put some numbers to that, average-sized DDoS attacks observed by cyber security researchers at Kaspersky Labs in 2011 saw data speeds of 70 megabits per second.
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Luis Corrons, technical director of Panda Labs, said during its investigation of Anonymous' attacks its analysts got talking to some of the activists via Internet Relay Chat (IRC).
Mumbai TB supervisors agree, saying some patients wait many months to get the right treatment because there aren't enough accredited labs to confirm diagnoses of more extreme drug resistance.
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Nokia's already putting some serious commitment into soliciting comments, complaints, and suggestions for new products from the hive mind through its Beta Labs program, but apparently, that's not quite enough.
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