New computer-guided systems for pinpoint radiation can zap tumors at far higher doses than previously possible, without destroying healthy tissue.
This is a hundred times smaller than previously possible, and small enough to allow research into organ-printing to begin in earnest.
The Phenome Centre will aim to use and develop the sensitive anti-doping facilities to analyse samples in a faster and more detailed manner than previously possible.
For example, whereas many attorneys feel that backup tapes are not accessible as a matter of right, technology has reached the point where one can go through them at far lower costs than previously possible.
As a result, I can design a system for my business that can quite reasonably withstand localized outages from just about any human error or natural disaster, and at a lower cost than previously possible.
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By the time she was born, I was already turning heads at Pioneer Packaging, helping to make antifreeze containers that were more translucent than previously thought possible.
Dr Stevens's technique works by employing a robot to create and handle the droplets in which the crystals grow and thus to do so faster than was previously possible.
Last month, in conjunction with Shawn-Yu Lin of the Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico, the group showed that photonic crystals can guide light on a far smaller scale than was previously possible.
Melanie Martella, executive editor of Sensors magazine, introduced us to the concept of sensor fusion, a fast-emerging technology that takes data from disparate sources to come up with more accurate, complete and dependable data than was previously possible.
The data compression technique he used allowed images to be sent over what were then slow dial-up connections at much faster speeds than had been previously possible.
Conversations that had formerly taken place privately in coffee shops were suddenly being held in public online and new thinking spread faster than had previously been possible.
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The Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA), currently being built in the Atacama Desert, northern Chile, will enable scientists to observe sub-millimeter radiation waves, giving them a far more detailed picture of the universe than has previously been possible with either optical or infrared telescopes.
Researchers in South Korea have made the process of creating embryonic stem cells through the cloning of human cells far more efficient than scientists previously believed was possible.
The success rate for creating an embryo by injecting DNA from a donor cell into an egg was 1 in 15, far more than researchers had previously thought possible.
It provides retailers with far deeper and more meaningful information than was previously pragmatic or even possible.
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But because Planck's map is so much more detailed than anything previously obtained, it is also possible to see some anomalies in it.
It's possible that these will show inflation remaining higher than previously expected, for longer, partly as a result of the stickiness in energy and food inflation that we are starting to see now.
"It is possible that the Toumai fossil is more recent than previously thought, " said Nick Patterson, a senior research scientist and statistician at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and lead author on the Nature paper.
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The challenge also extends to new forms of media, which has made it possible for journalists to have their stories spread further than previously imaginable, and for the audience to access information that previously was not available to them.
Bankrate.com, for example, found that one-third of those they surveyed said they were concerned enough about possible tax increases that they were spending less than they had previously planned.
The possible move, which has been floated previously, "makes more sense than a cap, because it's making the point that retirement accounts were never meant as an estate-planning vehicle and it would accomplish basically the same thing, " Mr. Slott, the IRA consultant, says.
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