Testing the vaccine in ferrets before moving on to humans will take six to eight weeks, eliminating any head start over the traditional egg method.

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Because hydrogen can clean the exhaust right from a cold engine start, the plasma reformer method is 20% to 50% more efficient at reducing NOx than other clean-diesel technologies, allowing less unburned fuel to pass through in the process.

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Orion Genomics hopes to start pulling in revenues next year from its proprietary method of sequencing, mapping and cloning agricultural genes--technology that can be used to improve crop yield, develop pest resistance or help plants survive drought, flooding and cold.

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Ms. Zimpher pointed to the method's success in Cincinnati, where she helped start a similar effort six years ago when she was president of the University of Cincinnati called the Strive Partnership.

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Joseph Kim of Inovio, an American start-up, says his firm has devised a DNA-based method to produce a universal flu vaccine.

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