These accusations were odd because an independent pilot study of the technique, whose results were published formally in the August issue of the Journal of Urology, but which have been common knowledge since 2008, suggests most of the patients involved have indeed experienced improvements in bladder function.
In December, Dr Mumma's team will begin another study of the Martian surface using the new technique of adaptive optics at the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile.
One study of a favored lead-removal technique, in 2010, found a 1.5% chance of major complications, which can include death.
John Dabiri of the California Institute of Technology, for example, has used the technique to study the hunting behaviour of jellyfish.
As the team reports in a forthcoming issue of Langmuir, a journal devoted to the study of colloids, the new technique allows them to build composite materials with custom-designed features as tiny as the diameter of a human hair.
ECONOMIST: A new way to build complicated materials, micron by micron
Invented in 1977, the technique allows close study of the body's anatomy.
The result is that biologists can study the expression of many different genes at the same time, a technique spectacularly illustrated last year by a group of researchers at Harvard who produced what they called brainbows.
The new study involves something similar to the cloning technique that led to the birth of Dolly, the famous cloned sheep that was born in July 1996.
Because of the sensitivity of the issue, researchers who carried out the study decided to adopt the 'randomised response technique method'.
Everybody knows how Lipitor works, Hazlett argued, so the problem must be the study, which used a technique called carotid intima media thickness (CIMT) to measure the thickness of the walls of an artery in the neck.
The study, which the researchers believe is the first systematic review of literature on the subject, finds that the technique may be effective in alleviating pain either during or after dental surgery.
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.
Researchers using a new systematic analysis technique identified faults in many more regions of DNA in the 1, 000 patients involved in the study.
应用推荐