About five years ago they developed a hypothesis, based on data from experimental animals, that bowel cancer might be prevented by a regular dose of aspirin.
Their goal was to determine how best to go about obtaining a set of experimental data that would allow accurate models to be built for all imaginable proteins.
Scientists in the company's research lab have built an experimental system that captures data, such as a baby's heart rate, temperature and movement, from a series of sensors under the baby's mattress and feeds the information to the parents' PC.
The outcome of this will be terrible: regulation by politics - and not by a disinterested enthusiasm for best experimental methods and the best data.
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Krishnamurthy said this is still in an experimental mode at the enterprise although some banks have deployed big data at a department or line of business level.
In a development that greatly bolsters its standing in the cystic fibrosis market, Vertex Pharmaceuticals late yesterday released data showing a combination of its existing Kalydeco treatment and an experimental medication called VX-661 greatly improved patient breathing.
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Late Sunday, the company released data from a second-stage trial of 411 patients showing its experimental drug AMG-162 was at least as effective at boosting bone density as Fosamax and only has to be given as little as once every six months.
But the search giant admits that since 2007, it has also been collecting content data from unsecured networks, a result, it says, of accidentally implementing experimental code that a developer created in 2006.
The Royal Society's experts looked at data gathered since 1998, when a scare about the effects on rats of experimental genetically modified potatoes appeared to put the British public off the whole idea.
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