The NCAA could have been equally inspired to institute genetic testing when a student athlete has a heart ill-suited for basketball like Hank Gathers at Loyola Marymount.

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He said he sent some DNA samples to the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology for testing, but those samples were returned.

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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.

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"I have been in this field for 25 years, and these last two years have been the most exciting in my career, " says Randi Hagerman, a developmental pediatrician at the MIND Institute at UC, Davis who is testing several of the drugs.

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Queen's University sent 10 cod products that were purchased at the same time to an institute it works closely with in Scotland for DNA testing.

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The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), which performs its own crash testing and ratings, takes a hard-line stand: It does not recommend any small cars or SUVs for younger drivers.

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Typically a research institute must rely on a drug or biotech firm to produce experimental therapies for testing.

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He's the Director of the Institute for Animal Health at the Pirbright Laboratory in Surrey, which has been doing most of the testing for MAFF and is the only place in the UK licensed to handle foot and mouth vaccine.

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