Hopes of preventing women from suffering multiple miscarriages have been boosted after UK-based scientists have for the first time identified a cause.
Teams of scientists working independently have for the first time identified several gene mutations that they agree sharply increase the chances that a child will develop autism.
Cancer Research UK scientists have for the first time identified that there are five distinct types of prostate cancer and found a way to distinguish between them, according to a landmark study.
The findings follow a Guardian investigation into the rise in suicides which for the first time identified all 134 who died from January 2013 to 2 October 2014, an average of more than six a month.
The State Department has for the first time identified South Asia as a major hub of international terrorism, accusing Pakistan, a traditional American ally, and especially Afghanistan of providing safe haven and support to international terrorist groups.
Stephen King, reading it for the first time, "identified passionately" with Ralph, the would-be parliamentarian who wields the conch and tries to maintain order, as against the predatory Jack, who bedaubs himself with warpaint and leads the orgies of pig-killing.
Hours after the announcement in Berlin, officials in a different region, North Rhine-Westphalia, said they had, for the first time, identified the pathogens thought to be causing the outbreak in an open package of bean sprouts from the same farm.
The _Mail on Sunday, one of Campbell's least favorite newspapers, contained two articles guaranteed to give him a headache: an opinion poll showing that two-thirds of the British public believed that Blair had misled them on Iraqi W.M.D., and a full-page piece by none other than Andrew Gilligan, which, for the first time, identified the person who had ordered the dossier to be "sexed up".
In Plotinus (ca. 185 254) timeless eternity and life are for the first time identified together.
