And then she applied what she had learned and discovered a breakthrough process that uses light to kill cancer cells.
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And then she designed a device that uses light to kill hard-to-reach cancer cells while leaving the healthy ones untouched.
He invented a trap that uses light and a spruce-scented spray to draw the pests to a bowl, where they drown.
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Previous research found that the shark has light-producing cells called photophores in its belly, and it uses this light to camouflage itself.
It adds up quickly though, DallePezze says as an average home uses 30 light bulbs.
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It uses silver light-fixture pull-chains and safety pins, not as embellishment but as structural elements in a fairy-tale transformation.
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The laser Mr Hansen uses emits light with a wavelength of 2, 940 nanometres, which is primarily absorbed by water.
It's said the process is similar to how a CT scan functions, but uses visible light instead of X-rays.
The technique uses distant light amplified by the gravity of a massive star or planet to create an astronomical magnifying lens.
So the organisation that Ms Jana works for, the Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee, has put a machine in its office that uses ultraviolet light to detect forgeries.
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So, she asked her supervisor to include her in more customer meetings and made sure she met with out-of-town clients shortly after becoming a line manager in September 2010, heading an operation that seeks new uses for light-processing chips.
In November, WinFlex, a wind-power company based in Kiryat Yam, Israel, received one of the most coveted prizes in the GE Ecomagination Challenge for developing a wind-turbine system that uses a light, flexible cloth sheets made out of composite materials as the rotor system for a wind turbine.
It uses rows of light-emitting diodes that cost only 3 cents each to stimulate the fluorescent tags.
Researchers at Wake Forest University recently developed a new type of light bulb that uses field-induced polymer electroluminescent technology to create a soft white, full spectrum light that could last a decade.
Activists and advocates use the Constitution like a drunk uses a street-light, more for support than illumination.
Corvis is developing new technology that uses only flashes of light to transmit data from sender to receiver.
There's also a device that uses radiofrequency instead of light to heat the dermis and underlying tissue to achieve mildly to moderately tighter skin.
An optical mouse uses a beam of light and an optical sensor to detect movement over a surface -- there are no moving parts.
The advantage of the rival NTT technique, says Saruwatari Masatoshi, a senior researcher at the company's Optical Network Systems Laboratories, is that it uses only a single light source.
Two of the biggest supermarkets in the U.K., Tesco and Wm Morrison Supermarkets , have refused to adopt a government-proposed food labeling system which uses a "traffic light" design to indicate nutritional content.
It also uses an accelerometer and light sensors to snap an image when a person enters a new environment, and an infrared sensor to take one when it detects the body heat of a person in front of the wearer.
But Friend envisions a time when the casing of a handheld computer or telephone will have one organic polymer that soaks up a room's light and uses it to juice a battery, which then powers one of his hyperefficient OLED screens.
For example, it uses cameras to detect normal light, as well as spectrometers.
British-born Anthony McCall's piece You and I Horizontal is a bewildering solid light installation that uses a video projector to create what seems like a thick wall.
It uses a small spectrometer to bounce infrared light off particles in the sample.
Slowing down light may have many practical uses in communications, signal processing, television displays and night-vision devices.
While a typical incandescent bulb uses 60 watts of power to generate light, the current state of LED technology can produce the same light for less than 10 watts.
One such project is called NewsFlash, and uses high-frequency red and green light to transmit data to the built-in camera on a receiving device -- in this case Samsung's Epic 4G.
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