(The larger figures are percentages of tested blood samples that contain antibodies, not of overall donations).
The kits will allow doping authorities to analyze blood samples that have been frozen from earlier tests, Howman said.
They are widely distributed -- showing up in the Arctic, in food samples and in almost all human blood samples that have been tested.
Since the 1980's, the study participants have given permission for genetic studies, providing blood samples that have allowed researchers to extract the DNA and store it.
To do that, he analyzed blood samples that had been taken from nine thousand Air Force recruits between 1948 and 1954.
The inspectors found two-year-old blood samples that never made it to the crime lab, forgotten bullets that never underwent ballistics testing.
Mr. Gyllensten and his colleagues traced the ancestry of 53 people from DNA blood samples that were used in another scientific study.
The more blood samples that were collected, the easier it proved to cross-match DNA samples taken from the bones of exhumed victims.
■ Forensic evidence — including the blood samples — that could have been vital to exonerating the convicted men vanished years later, destroying hopes of an appeal.
The oxygen transfer rate is expressed as a mass transfer coefficient determined in blood samples that were stored in the local blood bank for different periods of time.
The researchers searched for links to 68 genes in the patients' blood samples that might influence mood states, but these are clearly not the only genes that could be involved in the emergence of suicidal thoughts.
