What one should discuss is not the technique itself, but what man is doing by using this specific technique.

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Another prevention technique under discussion is male-specific, though it might be a bit much to describe it as male-friendly.

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In the future, when the technique is refined, people with specific injuries could receive transplants of individual facial features, Janis said.

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Using optogenetics, a technique that allows researchers to inhibit specific cells with light, the researchers turned off IL cortex activity for several seconds as the rats approached the point in the maze where they had to decide which way to turn.

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Like wine grapes, hops are said to reflect the specific character of their soil, climate and farming technique, and the best ones are highly coveted.

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The biggest is why the new technique is able to make T cells unresponsive to just the specific tissues that are initially transplanted.

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The technique begins with the placing of light-sensitive proteins from green algae inside specific types of brain cells.

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In 2011, researchers from China and Hong Kong showed how it might be done with laser beams of a specific shape - and the US space agency Nasa has even funded a study to examine how the technique might help with manipulating samples in space.

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Eggan's technique, which is the subject of a paper in the current issue of Nature, creates stem cells specific to a particular disease, like cancer or diabetes, without a supply of human egg cells.

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