But those with the inactive variant, which slowed down nicotine clearance the most, smoked around 12 cigarettes a week.
Last year, hard drive manufacturer Seagate admitted that some of its Maxtor drives were infected with an autorun variant.
The BRABUS "iBusiness" is built to order and can be combined with any engine variant from the S 350 to the S 65.
Five years ago Pioneer Hi-Bred International (a subsidiary of DuPont) figured out how to slide a critical gene from corn into sorghum to make a variant with more lysine--an essential amino acid.
The researchers found individuals with a COMT variant that triples the amount of dopamine in the front of the brain felt no improvement without treatment but an improvement with the placebo acupuncture.
In general, people with the gene variant who also consumed the highest fat diets were seven times more likely to develop Alzheimer's than individuals with the susceptibility mutation who ate less fat.
Previous studies have indicated that people with the gene variant have up to 55% higher risk of getting heart disease, and also that this risk could be mitigated by taking cholesterol lowering drugs.
Motorola created quite some buzz with its first "Intel inside" Android phone, the RAZR i, back in September, so it's only natural to see the company tapping into the Chinese market with a localized variant.
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While patients with the KIF6 gene who were in the placebo arms of the drug studies had elevated heart risk, the risk seemed to decline dramatically or dissappear among patients with the gene variant who were in the arms of the study that got the cholesterol-lowering drugs.
"More models, including a mini variant targeted towards people with small appetites, and a 10-inch variant aimed at no one in particular, are also planned, " the company said in a blog post.
All deliver unprecedented range, with the 85 kWh variant achieving an EPA-certified range of 265 miles.
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At the oncology meeting, a big new trial showed that the drug also helps stomach cancer patients with the same gene variant.
The company, besides supporting Windows, is backing a Linux-based variant in partnership with Nokia Corp.
The previous Labour government had placed orders for two new aircraft carriers to be equipped with the F-35B variant of the American-built joint strike fighter (JSF), which is capable of short take-off and vertical landing.
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Wireless power demos abound at CEATEC, and Rohm Semiconductor had their own variant on hand with a complete mix of direct-draw gadgets, along with the omnipresent charging iPhone 4 (or was it a 4S?).
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The study showed that by substituting salmeterol for an alternative anti-inflammatory medicine, montelukast, outcomes for severely asthmatic children with the arginine-16 gene variant were substantially improved.
Autism and Asperger Syndrome (its (somewhat) less severe variant) are obviously genetic with incomplete penetrance and a heritability of 90%.
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Foursquare sees itself as a variant of Facebook or Twitter, but with location thrown in.
To be officially announced at Mobile World Congress in February, CEO JK Shin told iNews24 that the next variant of the Galaxy Note will come with an 8 inch screen.
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Indeed, there's something amiss in T-Mobile's variant that keeps it from achieving real-world performance parity with our past 8X reviews.
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Since then, real malware has also appeared in the Android Market, including 50 or so apps infected with a piece of malware called DroidDream in March and another 25 using a variant called DroidDream Light in May.
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Now, Holly is back with another mighty tall claim: "HTC is considering a stock Android variant of the One for release in the US." In fairness, rumors of such a phone began to circulate last week, but were quenched just as quickly by HTC.
His mother, along with his sister, is the nightly host of games of kalooki, a rummy variant not unlike Brooklyn-style canasta.
The YouTube video shows some of the various standard applications that come with the XO-1: Firefox, an unnamed instant messaging program, a variant of Abiword (word processing), and an application called eToys that looks like a combination of traditional computer games (such as Chinese Checkers) combined with something resembling the children's art program Kid Pix.
Whenever Dexter confronted his victims with their crimes, it was a dark parody of a police interrogation as well as a variant on the notion of detective work as psychoanalysis.
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