"We are on the verge of a massive revolution" in diagnosing disease, says William Wallen, senior vice president for lab testing research at Bayer.
There are 31 reactors in the United States for research or testing purposes, according to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
As much as we wish this was some type of anti-gravity bouncy castle, NASA's current experiments with inflatable structures are intended for slightly less entertaining implementation on the moon, where crews will use them as outposts for research, testing, storage, and living.
So, while stem cells still hold great promise for regenerative medicine, their use as tools for research and drug testing is having more immediate impact.
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At present the system is being used on purpose-built websites with, for instance, online research groups testing the effect of various display ads.
Professor John Henry, a consultant in toxicology at St Mary's said the testing could be done anonymously for the purposes of research, and would not prejudice the treatment of any patient.
Nearby, at West Virginia University's Center for Identification Technology Research, researchers are already testing some of these technologies that will ultimately be used by the FBI.
Pfizer has drawn criticism for testing this new drug only with Lipitor, but research chief John LaMattina argued that testing the drug with other cholesterol-lowering drugs, such as Merck's Zocor or Pravachol, from Bristol-Myers Squibb (nyse: BMY - news - people ), would not be financially possible.
It's common for mice and rats to be the subject of testing during research ultimately intended to benefit humans.
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There are more than 930 chimpanzees at U.S. medical research facilities, most of them used for hepatitis testing, according to a report by the Institute of Medicine issued in December.
This patent portfolio is derived from over a decade of research, development, and testing, and covers methods for increasing spectrum utilization (network capacity), expanding coverage, improving uplink transmission speeds at the cell edge, and improving device battery life.
Dr. Wolf, of Northwestern University, and other researchers, in partnership with the National Institutes of Health and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, recently completed a trial testing a pill-bottle label that provides more explicit instructions and larger font size.
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"Pretty much every pharmaceutical company in the world" is testing amyloid-busting drugs, says Menelas Pangalos, vice president for neuroscience research at the pharmaceutical firm Wyeth.
Stonegate Advisors LLC, a research firm that works for health insurers, has been testing clients' plans with consumers in a mock-up version of an exchange, which is an online insurance marketplace.
According to the testing performed to date at the Ohio State University's Center for Automotive Research (CAR) and the very low observed rate of aging, cells built with A123's Nanophosphate EXT are expected to be capable of retaining more than 90 percent of initial capacity after 2, 000 full charge-discharge cycles at 45 degrees Celsius.
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But he suggested that before changing any guidelines, more research needs to be done to determine the effectiveness of testing people for hs-CRP levels, something this study was not designed to do.
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Astronauts would then travel to the asteroid where "there could be mining activities, research into ways of deflecting an asteroid from striking Earth and testing to develop technology for a trip to deep space and Mars, " it said.
Typically a research institute must rely on a drug or biotech firm to produce experimental therapies for testing.
Research communities are fast replacing the focus group as the preferred method for discovering or testing new products concepts.
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They have handled research, Web postings, software testing and other administrative tasks, freeing up more personal time for him.
More recently, Myriad Genetics threatened to sue researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and elsewhere for conducting testing on genes associated with breast cancer, leading the American Civil Liberties Union to sue the company for impeding research ( the ACLU lost).
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At that stage Dr Pusztai's research simply looked like a proof of principle checking that the techniques for transplanting and testing lectin genes worked, prior to exploring other, less harmful lectins as built-in insecticides for crops.
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