As HGS unearthed new proteins, he would mix them with various immune-system cells in test tubes to see what happened.

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The new test would identify cells that over-expressed three genes Corixa discovered while trying to develop a breast cancer vaccine.

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Sure enough, he found that the only cells that could produce new tumors in the test tube were the ones with CD133--strong circumstantial evidence that defective stem cells were the growth factor in brain cancer.

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To test his idea, Dr Feld looked at cervical-cancer cells.

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But in test-tube experiments the mock DNA couldn't pierce the membrane of human cells.

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Dirks showed that some of the immature-looking cells from his patients could form tumorlike clumps in the test tube, unlike most other cells from the tumors, but he didn't have a method to pluck out the stem cells.

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In Dr Djerassi's future world, men and women will have their sperm and eggs frozen in their 20s and then undergo sterilisation, free to pursue their professional and sexual interests content in the knowledge that their cells can be safely resurrected and reliably made to unite in a test-tube whenever they want a child.

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Beginning this month the Hoechst-Ariad Genomics Center will test some 30, 000 genes for activity in forming bone cells.

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The test chip will enable the correlation of the simulation models to the FinFET process and contains test structures, standard cells, a PLL and embedded SRAMs. The memory instances include high-density SRAMs designed to operate at very low voltages and high-speed SRAMs to validate the process performance.

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