Celebrity perfumes are here today, gone tomorrow, often made from cheap, in-the-lab ingredients.
After the results of two devolution referendums in Scotland and Wales went against the now minority Labour government - the Lib-Lab pact of the previous year was well and truly over - the nationalists withdrew their support from Labour.
The creation of the S-Lab recognizes the scale of the challenge caused by climate change, said Richard Locke, one of six MIT professor who set up the new courses.
Mrs Yates said that the Lib-Lab pact of the 1970s was not as bad as it had been made out to be.
Mr Opik said the Lib-Lab coalition forged last year on common ground with the Labour administration in the assembly would continue, despite the collapse of a pact between the two parties at national level.
The Lib-Lab cabinet committee was set up by Mr Blair after the last election to discuss the two parties' shared constitutional reform agenda.
"By arrogantly insisting on the most expensive scheme of all and crudely dismissing attempts by the Conservatives and others to suggest alternatives, the Lib-Lab pact stand accused of gross incompetence and an indecent disregard for the public finances, " he said.
This is why the report published on March 5th by the Lib-Lab joint consultative committee on constitutional reform, jointly chaired by Mr Cook and Bob Maclennan for the Lib Dems, is so important.
After all, no question of morality seems to escape the attention of the lab-coat crowd these days, confident that science can unravel every human mystery.
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The last Lib-Lab pact, in 1977-78 during the premiership of James Callaghan, ended in tears.
The bottle bulb was inspired by engineer Amy Smith, from the D-Lab in MIT.
They're hauling the billion-dollar lab to the International Space Station for a rendezvous tomorrow.
The Lib-Lab assembly coalition in Wales has shown far less enthusiasm for Tony Blair's flagship private finance partnerships.
The partners for such a vision are already out there Maker Faire, TechShop, the D-Lab, Fab Lab, Lemelson-MITInvenTeams, FIRST robotics, Startup Weekend and more.
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Most of the infected ferrets recovered from the lab-made virus.
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These are the students like the ones I visited in their state-of-the-art radiology lab last spring at Delgado Community College in New Orleans.
To achieve that, the engineers will have to include multiple cell types and devise a system that allows the lab-built creature to sense its environment and use an internal "decision-making circuit" to pick different behaviors.
Another debacle, this time involving DNA testing: Josiah Sutton served four and a half years for rape after the Houston Crime Lab tied him to crime-scene DNA. The lab was later found to be rife with problems, including a leaky roof that let rainwater contaminate evidence.
Different is exactly the approach Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee, economists and co-founders of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), take in Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty.
Here, grad students and entrepreneurs will share facilities, like a state-of-the-art water flow lab, with 30-year industry veterans.
The day after I talked with Lanier at his home, we drove together to the Virtual Human Interaction Lab, a new virtual-reality lab on the Stanford campus.
Light-based communication seems to wind throughout the MIT Media Lab -- it is a universal language, after all, since many devices output light, be it with a dedicated LED or a standard LCD, and have the capacity to view and interpret it.
No insects were harmed in the making of our video, at least -- and the lab assures us that ant had a good life before learning the hard way why it shouldn't mess with Harvard scientists.
To investigate what impact a forced switch to a low-lipid regime might have on the development of red-legged kittiwakes, the Kitaysky lab designed experiments to explore the effects of various diets.
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That pattern of signals will have to be replicated for the lab-made heart.
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We already have Watson, the lab-on-a-chip tech is a few years out as well ( see the Qualcomm Tricorder X Prize).
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The number of new cases are up 56% on the number reported this time last year, and the total lab-confirmed toll now stands at 4, 407.
The contrast with the last Lib-Lab pact could scarcely be starker.
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But it is a big jump from the 20-person lab Kim runs at MIT's prestigious Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research to Merck, where he'll be in charge of more than 4, 500 research personnel.
Like the lab-on-a-chip that allows people in remote parts of the world to test for HIV and syphilis, OraQuick can save lives by giving people hesitant to go to the clinic a test they can perform relatively easily and in the privacy of their own homes.
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