The first Argo floats were deployed in late 1999, and by November 2012, Argo had collected its millionth profile of temperature and salinity, twice the number obtained by research vessels during all of the 20th century. 120, 000 new profiles are collected every year, at the impressive rate of 1 profile approximately every 4 minutes.

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The problem is that the extra returns obtained through such research need to be larger than the costs of conducting it.

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In the study, led by Marco Gerlinger and Charles Swanton at the London Research Institute, researchers obtained tumor tissue from four patients with kidney cancer.

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In March, Mr Clinton announced changes to the regulations involving classified research, for which, at the moment, informed consent of subjects need not always be obtained.

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The benefits obtained by operating a common facility in terms of sharing throughout the Defense Department the fruits of research performed may also be severely diminished.

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