Such cells would provide a much more reliable method of testing drugs' poison content than currently exists.

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This method of testing new drug ideas against many thousand compounds - High Throughput Screening (HTS) - is likened to searching for a very small needle in a very large haystack.

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In its first two rounds, the company aspired to demonstrate that its technology would work at least as well as the existing method of testing for DNA, proteins, and small molecules.

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Most current STD check-ups for women involve taking a swab from high inside the vagina, which is not only an unpleasant experience for the patient, but an unreliable method of testing.

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However, on Monday it was revealed that a new report carried out on behalf of HSE by the Health and Safety Laboratory (HSL) - which carries out scientific research - that the method of testing carried out by Santia could "overestimate the levels of asbestos fibres as it does not distinguish between asbestos fibres and other fibres such as paper, clothing and skin cells".

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The Scientific Method demands a constant testing of theories.

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LightLab Imaging, a unit of Japan's Goodman, is testing a method using light.

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Cofounder Platz found that spray drying, a method of dehydration used to make powdered milk, produced a consistent particle, but the testing equipment was designed to make only a few grams per day.

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