Mass screening of this sort is not, itself, a new idea in the search for drugs, but extending it so that it can study effects on entire animals rather than just isolated cells should make it even more productive.
Then in March 1996, another challenge: A bill to study the effects of gambling on American society.
There are presently only 260 terrestrial places around the globe where data on carbon-dioxide levels are monitored to help study the effects of global warming.
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Stem-cell research dates to 1981 and started out with mouse embryos, which researchers used to study the effects of individual genes and to try treating disease in mice.
Milesi, who uses satellite data to study the effects of urbanization, estimates Americans use as much as 19 trillion gallons of water and 2.4 million metric tons of nitrogen-based fertilizer annually to care for their lawns.
The Queen and the duke later met Germany's chancellor, Gerhard Schroeder, at the ultra-modern Chancellery, and 24 British and German students, aged 16 to 19, working together to study the effects of climate change.
The European Space Agency and the Russian Institute of Biomedial Problems are scheduled to run a joint 520-day mock Mars expedition this year aimed to study the effects of extreme isolation and confinement on 12 volunteers.
CNN: Mars on the brain? Red Planet pioneers to face cosmic mind trip
The satellite - which had been intended to study the effects of climate change - should have separated from the rocket and deployed its solar panels some nine minutes after take-off, at an altitude of 302km.
Recently, researchers at the Institute of Neurology at University College London stimulated the brains of human subjects to push the brain toward beta band frequencies associated with focus to study the effects on motor processing, with the hope of helping those with Parkinson's disease.
"Having these ways to look into the brain gives us a tool that we can then use to study the effects of music on the growth and development of the brain, " says Professor John Iversen of the Institute of Neural Computation at the University of California San Diego.
That said, subtler effects of climate change such as more sudden rains and particularly hot days with disproportionate effects on yield are left out, which might mean the study underestimates the effects.
His fitness is tested as part of a study into the effects of training at the University of Hertfordshire.
In late 2011, academics at the University of Kent began carrying out a 12-month study into the effects of lap dancing clubs on communities.
This latest research at Swansea University's College of Engineering follows an initial study into the effects that a normal pregnancy has on women's cardiovascular function.
Just as importantly, deeper study of the effects of taxation casts a light on how certain taxes affect where taxpayers decide to live and where businesses locate.
FORBES: The Feds Black Out Adam Smith's Invisible Hand Of Migration
The objectives are the recovery and monitoring of whale populations, study of the effects of not whaling on whales and research on the effects of environmental change on whale populations.
But the most scientifically credible study of the effects of Medicaid, based on randomly assigning 10, 000 people to Medicaid coverage in Oregon, found there was no statistically significant difference in ER use between those newly enrolled in Medicaid relative to the (largely uninsured) comparison group.
FORBES: States Face a "Sophie's Choice" on Medicaid Expansion
For many drugs, just doing a study looking at the effects of medicines on African-Americans might be useful.
Susan Collins, R-Maine, has reiterated her call for an independent study of the health effects of the airport scanners, saying an alternative screening technology is available.
The Motion Picture Association of America is already working on its own economic study of the harmful effects of file sharing, to be completed this autumn.
In the first study to test the effects of playing violent video games over time, researchers found that cumulative play results in increased hostility and aggression.
FORBES: Study: More Violent Video Game Play Results in More Aggression
In the American Journal of Epidemiology this month, Janet Hildebrand and colleagues reported on a large study looking at the effects of coffee on throat cancers.
The route that I took on the way towards my study looking at the effects of meditation training on alpha rhythms in somatosensory cortex has been circuitous.
When I was a graduate student at Columbia, my mentor Carol Dweck and another student, Claudia Mueller, conducted a study looking at the effects of different kinds of praise on fifth-graders.
"Commissioner Shah is correct that the state needs to take the time to do a comprehensive study of the health effects of fracking to protect the public health, " said biologist Sandra Steingraber, a leader of the anti-fracking movement.
This is the first study to highlight the effects on mortality of alcohol minimum pricing, although the Scottish government has used previous research from the University of Sheffield to claim consumption of alcohol would be reduced if prices rose.
BBC: Study claims minimum pricing cuts alcohol-related deaths
When computer models gave him the power to spin up winds on planets of the mind, his first big topic was a study of the net effects of smoggy pollutants in the atmosphere, which cool the planet down, and the carbon dioxide which warms it up.
In our study, we consider the effects of cost containment and coverage expansion separately.
Nationally recognized research firm Dalbar recently produced the results of a study on the overall performance effects of individual investor behavior.
The EPA first requested the information from Halliburton and seven other energy companies as part of a study into health and safety effects of fracking.
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