The mission control in the Jet Propulsion Laboratory burst into cheers as the rover touched down Monday morning.

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Steady electronic "heartbeat" tones relayed from Curiosity across space to Earth indicated a successful landing to the control room at Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

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Rob Gold, from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, was also watching outside the mission-control center.

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The Health Protection Agency has published information to enable GPs and clinicians to recognise potential cases early and to then ensure that laboratory confirmation is obtained, treatment started early and infection control and hygiene advice implemented.

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That way you have a randomly selected control and treatment group, just like in a laboratory experiment.

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Recently we have seen additional examples of favorable changes in laboratory tests without the expected reduction in risk for tight glucose control for diabetes, fibrate therapy for diabetics, and niacin therapy for patients with heart disease.

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The dishes are then flown back to the control boat where they are sealed and taken to be analysed in a laboratory to identify particular pathogens - bacteria, viruses, fungi.

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The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory have partnered together on a successful trial for a brain-computer interface that allows a person to control a robotic arm using only their thoughts.

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