Some sellers operate right out in the open, others have ways to evade detection.

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Unlike the familiar three of length, breadth and height, these extra dimensions are curled up so tightly that they elude detection (though scientists are trying to prise them open in particle accelerators like the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva).

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In San Francisco a couple of weeks back the progressive medics of the Sage Commons gathered to talk about how open innovation could, should and will play an ever bigger role in disease detection and cure, with patients more active partners in this process.

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