They are working on similar tests for tuberculosis and sleeping sickness.
"We are probably overtreating a lot of patients, " says Harvard Medical School pathologist Mark Rubin, who is working on DNA tests to predict the future aggressiveness of a tumor.
In 2004, researchers from a French laboratory that had performed Tour de France drug tests, working on their own, retested dozens of preserved samples from the 1999 Tour.
It has drug and diagnostics deals with Roche Holding and is working to use diagnostic tests to improve a heart drug that Pharmacia (nyse: PHA - news - people ) is developing.
It is hard to find things to fill that amount of bandwidth but early tests suggest it is working.
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The science behind the test itself is not new - many researchers have been working on the possibility of breath tests for a number of cancers, including lung.
Each short-listed family was tested on initiative, stamina and team-working, as well as undergoing psychological tests to find out how they might cope with the stresses of living in a small mining community in Blaenavon.
He said that selective schools were working with academics to develop and adopt entrance tests that were resistant to coaching.
The researchers were particularly concerned that only 13% knew a specific danger sign to look for in tests checking that the heart was working properly, the team reported in Archives of Diseases in Childhood.
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They said he also instructed his non-physician employees to order and perform tests for patients of other doctors working at his offices, even though he had not examined those patients and the other doctors had not ordered them.
As Gilbert told me in a May 31 interview, before Gilbert started working there, he and Nivi took personality tests and worked with a leadership coach who facilitated a discussion about how each perceived the world and their approach to resolving conflicts.
It seems to be working: for example, of 2, 172 tests carried out on 854 cyclists by May, only 23 warranted further scrutiny.
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Liponis says that Canyon Ranch is also working with Biophysical on developing other, more specialized tests, such as an antiaging exam, measuring different biomarkers from those found on the 250 test.
It takes the software packages developed by Linux volunteers, tests them, assembles them into a working operating system and ships the result on a compact disc along with a manual and a promise of support.
Every day is like a series of multiple-choice tests: Go to the gym or keep working?
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The so-called stress tests will be performed on Europe's 143 working reactors and other atomic installations and will consider a range of factors, including seismic activity, flooding, and power loss at reactors.
Tests using spatial relationships, speed of processing, and working memory aim to measure it.
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There are various tests of active involvement, but the most common is working at least 500 hours a year.
And we're working very closely with them to ensure they have the right diagnostic tests so that they can diagnose conditions earlier and get appropriate treatments and therefore have a better survival rate.
Leaver wants to see tests introduced to ensure that the right kind of people are working in football.
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When working on a fragrance for laundry detergents or fabric softeners, Mr. Papas tests using a rigorous regimen.
The force said tests were carried out before staff moved in, but engineers were working on the problem.
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The idea of treating disease by replacing a defective gene with a working copy gained credence in 1990 with the success of the world's first gene therapy clinical tests against a rare condition called severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID).
However, Haseltine says the odds of a medicine working against a bacteria like anthrax or a virus like smallpox are very high after even early-stage tests.
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