After refining a technique for intestinal engineering, we applied it to a solid organ, the spleen.
In addition, the plaintiffs' bar has refined a technique in drug lawsuits that it has used effectively against many asbestos companies.
Frankenthaler, who died last year, was known for having refined a technique of pouring pigment directly onto canvas laid on the floor, an approach developed by Jackson Pollock.
To make the new and improved artificial antibodies, Shea and his collaborators at the Tokyo Institute of Technology refined a technique called molecular imprinting.
Carson also refined a technique known as hemispherectomy, in which one-half of the brain is removed to prevent seizures in persons with severe epilepsy.
Refining a technique introduced some years earlier in the motion picture industry, Mr. Simon had Mr. Edwards record his show with three motion-picture cameras on 35-millimeter film and two-track audio.
There, Venter and colleagues became the first researchers to chart the whole genome of any organism (a bacterium, Haemophilus influenzae, once thought to cause flu), among other landmarks, and refined a technique allowing scientists to piece together genomes from small bits of DNA, minimizing the ponderous genetic surveying then in use.
Refining a technique, developed by Jackson Pollock, of pouring pigment directly onto canvas laid on the floor, Ms. Frankenthaler, heavily influencing the colorists Morris Louis and Kenneth Noland, developed a method of painting best known as Color Field — although Clement Greenberg, the critic most identified with it, called it Post-Painterly Abstraction.
Although less renowned than Mr. Fosbury, David Berkoff revolutionized the world of swimming by refining a technique whose origins date back to the 1920s – the dolphin kick.
