Women who have been through the menopause may not need an annual smear test, new research suggests.
Developing the diagnostic test, a research-intensive project, ate up two costly years.
Four tablespoons a day of Hershey's unsweetened cocoa (about 40 calories) in a variety of research test beverages also has been shown to be heart-healthy, according to the study and at least one other published trial.
Even though this was test-tube research and the new strain has not yet been shown to be infectious in animals, the scientists involved say it offers important clues as to how prion diseases cross between species.
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They are less successful motivators if they reward students for reaching a certain level of performance, such as achieving a passing score on a test, according to research by Roland Fryer.
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Before launching, Mateschitz hired a market research firm to test Red Bull's acceptance.
In the form of web expert, color is merely something verify, customer research and even test onto your web website.
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Over the weekend both airlines and research agencies made test flights.
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The research could help test simulations of how the outer, fluid core generates the Earth's magnetic field, which shields our planet and the teeming life on it from harmful cosmic rays.
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According to the Manhattan Institute, a research group, test scores in reading and maths have remained much as they were before the two men took over, well below the national and big-city averages.
Anxiety about China has spread well beyond blue-collar sectors, reports Tony Damon, the boss of a Toledo-based architecture and engineering firm, SSOE, which designs high-tech research centres or test tracks for clients worldwide, including increasingly in China.
And earlier this month, Airbus, in association with Shell, Rolls Royce and Qatar Airways, began a research project to test 'Gas to Liquid' (GTL) technologies that convert lower-emission natural gas and other synthetic fuels into liquid kerosene.
The company then uses that model for research and development to test catheter deployment.
Voytek plans to devote more research and experimentation to test this idea out.
He said further research was necessary to test the feasibility of the ideas.
The next step for the research team is to test the process to see if it holds up under real world conditions.
In January 2006 Laurie Pycroft started a group in defence of vivisection for medical research, Pro-Test, to counter those who believe that animals have rights equal to those of humans.
Our research also shows that test and development projects in the cloud are just as likely to go to production in the cloud as they are to come back to your data center.
In addition to other possible uses, Patwari wants to conduct research with doctors to test his method as an infant-breathing monitor, and, if it proves useful, develop it as a medical device that would need federal approval.
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Amtech pointed out in a research note that a test Google search of each of the top 10 best-selling prescription drugs at that time turned up a slew of ads for Canadian online drug peddlers like CanadaDrugPharmacy.com and CanadaDrugCenter.com.
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Without the test animals, whole swaths of medical research would grind to a halt.
Fear not, however, as the object of the research isn't to test out future cyborg oppressors.
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Scientists in white coats who committed murder in test tubes in the name of medical research.
We need a period of further clinical research to determine whether a test is valuable or acceptable.
In the editorial, Topol savages the research that led to the test.
"The vehicles will cover thousands of kilometres in test drives and evaluations to gather valuable research data from every-day driving scenarios, " said Christian Ress, technical expert, Ford Research and Advanced Engineering.
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Dr Ingrid Winship, another member of the research team, said a test could inform women with a family history - who make up between 10% and 30% of cases - if they were at risk.
But he said that the reasons for humans becoming addicted to any drug were more complex than simply their genetic make-up, and that a test for any gene uncovered by further research would not necessarily work.
Rebecca Wood, chief executive of the Alzheimer's Research Trust, which funded the research, said the new test was a big step forward in efforts to spot the early signs of dementia, as two-thirds of the 700, 000 people in the UK with dementia remain undiagnosed.
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