Even more important, falling interest rates have drastically lowered the cost of servicing the federal debt.
British Energy, which owns eight nuclear power plants in Britain and part of the Three Mile Island plant in Pennsylvania, said today that it had drastically lowered its estimate of what its power plants were worth, leading to a loss of £4.3 billion ($7 billion) in the fiscal year ended March 31.
In space exploration, for example, industry leaders such as Elon Musk's SpaceX and NASA have fully embraced metal 3D printing as a way to produce rocket ship parts that have drastically lowered costs while highly improving performance.
Compared with the Sanger method, the so-called next-generation sequencing technologies (of the second, third or even fourth generations) have drastically lowered its cost and increased its efficiency, making genome-wide and transcriptome-wide sequencing feasible.
Although high-throughput sequencing technologies are rapidly evolving and have drastically lowered the cost of whole genome DNA sequencing, the de novo assembly of a mammalian-sized genome remains a challenge [ 11].
In this case sequence-based technologies that directly determine the nucleic acid sequence are a better alternative, as technological advances have drastically lowered the cost of this type of analysis.
He explicitly tied the prevalence of violence in the United States to the availability of guns, noting that television viewers in Britain watch the same shows as Americans and play the same video games, but that the country has drastically lower murder rates.
Brick and mortar stores are being killed in the market because they can't compete with their online counterparts who have drastically lower overheads.
However, the majority of retention occurred due to EpCAM binding, since non-specific antibody controls had drastically lower uptake.
