Note: CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is the world's leading laboratory for particle physics.
In 1993, he established the Coulston Foundation in Alamogordo -- considered the largest chimpanzee laboratory in the world -- where he carried out his research on chimps and loaned them out to other laboratories, with the help of government funding.
Why does Switzerland, which invented the World Wide Web at its CERN Laboratory in Geneva in 1991, host no significant internet company today?
But it is a big leap from the laboratory to the real world - whatever our telomeres may say, human lifespans also have to contend with additional factors like diet, drink and stress.
That is an important lesson about the difficulty of extrapolating laboratory results into the real world.
It's a surprisingly strong tendency, one that has been observed in countless laboratory experiments and real-world examples of behavior.
If China is the world's most efficient workshop, perhaps it does not also need to be the world's most cutting-edge laboratory.
During the hearing, Braun's side challenged the chain of custody from the time the urine sample was collected by Comprehensive Drug Testing Inc. to when it was sent, nearly 48 hours later, to a World Anti-Doping Agency-certified laboratory in Montreal, two people familiar with the case said.
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First, the potential importance of this case was recognized immediately and some of the best laboratories in the world were brought in to help validate the laboratory data.
The samples of Mosquera and Garcia Da Pena were tested at a World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) accredited laboratory in Cologne.
Stepping outside of the laboratory and re-entering the real world, most people probably wouldn't volunteer to be in a "capped-income" group.
In October the Oak Ridge National Laboratory announced an effort to build the world's fastest supercomputer, which will use AMD Opteron chips and 18, 000 of Nvidia's graphics-processing units.
Alta's new military charger designs give a picture of how that world may look: according to the Army Research Laboratory, a soldier's load can weigh 100 pounds, over a third of which are batteries.
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Prato still remains the world's fabric development leader - a sort of laboratory where future fabric trends are tested out.
Kepler made further inroads in supercomputing, as Oak Ridge National Laboratory announced that it had completed Titan, the world's fastest open-science supercomputer.
However, there is a world of difference between a drug tackling tumour cells in the laboratory, and getting the same drug throughout a real tumour - a mass of tissue and scar tissue.
The number of laboratory-confirmed cases of MDR-TB around the world has gone from 12, 000 in 2005 to 62, 000 in 2011.
These were then sent off to the laboratory for testing for the most common STD in the world, Trichomonas vaginalis.
The sequel to the multi-award winning 2007 Portal game pits the player against GLaDOS, the AI bad guys behind the laboratory setup featured in the first game, PC World reports.
Researcher Dr Isaac Bogoch, who specialises in internal medicine and infectious diseases at Toronto General Hospital, told the BBC he had read about smartphone microscopes being trialled in a laboratory and decided to "recreate it in a real world setting".
Each can be carried out by children of all ages in schools around the world and no special equipment is needed (all experiments can be done with laboratory equipment at schools).
In support of its new Titan supercomputer, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has selected DataDirect Networks (DDN) to build the world's fastest storage system to power the fastest supercomputer in the world.
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The UCI followed Contador's statement with its own, confirming that the rider had been "formally and provisionally suspended as is prescribed by the World Anti-Doping Code" after both his A and B urine samples tested positive in a laboratory in Cologne, Germany.
Beyond that, the crews are keeping the secrets safe from the poachers of the world, but here's hoping this amounts to more than just jovial celebration in a far off laboratory.
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However, the UCI said the concentration found by the laboratory was estimated at 50 picograms - 400 times less than anti-doping laboratories accredited by the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) must be able to detect.
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