They calculate that within four years this method could even replace insecticide-treated bed nets as a way of controlling mosquitoes.
Though DNA storage is still quite expensive, the researchers say this method could eventually provide a viable option for archiving information, especially considering DNA's high capacity and long life span.
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Buchholz and Spalding first were trying to use this method to see if they could determine whether neurons in the brain were grown once or if they were regenerated throughout a lifetime.
However, the researchers said that despite a lower number of invasive tests, the heavier reliance of this method on chorionic villus sampling earlier in pregnancy could actually mean an increase in the number of healthy babies lost if the miscarriage rate using this method was closer to 2%.
With complex purification technology beyond the reach of the many developing world communities that suffer from dangerously high levels of the toxic metalloid element in their water supply, this surprisingly simple method of filtration, could quite literally save lives.
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Model farms were established to show farmers how their fields could flourish by using this sophisticated irrigation method.
In February, an exploration company said using this method to free trapped natural gas in County Fermanagh could supply all the gas Northern Ireland would need for decades.
This could be the upshot of a new fingerprinting method developed by Demian Ifa and his colleagues at Purdue University in Indiana.
This could mean that hunting with dogs could continue where it was shown to be the most effective and humane method of pest control.
This could be much cheaper and more reliable than the usual method, using mammalian cells.
Once you have used this method to expand in one direction, it should give you confidence that you could do so in others as well.
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But the essential point is that if this mooted production method can actually be made to work then there are three extant plants that you could bolt it onto: instead of building an entirely new, from scratch, plant as is being suggested.
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