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[C6.] Test of Cancer Drug Set Back by Deaths The biotechnology giant Genentech and its majority stockholder, Roche Holding, said they had temporarily stopped recruiting volunteers for a large test of the cancer drug Avastin after more patients than expected died.

And the United States Department of Energy is considering partially underwriting a proposal from the University of Hawaii and an American company, Greensea Ventures, to conduct a larger test of the iron-fertilizing process in the ocean west of the Galapagos Islands.

Next month, cabinet secretaries, top state and local officials and emergency units from Denver and Portsmouth, N.H., will conduct the largest test of the nation's ability to respond to a terrorist attack with chemical or biological weapons.

This study is the largest test of the relationships of these taxa to date and utilized many characters that had never before been applied to members of the Ferae in a cladistic context.

As part of a national study to validate the newly revised and developed quality indicators, we undertook the largest test of the inter-rater reliability of the MDS ever conducted in order to determine whether the data elements used in the construction of quality indicators are sufficiently reliable to be used as the basis for public reporting.

Experiments on animals and smaller tests on people showed enough promise for Merck to develop and conduct the first large tests of that approach, known as cell-mediated immunity.

We test the new incarnation of the method on 143 protein family/structure-pairs from the Protein Families database (PFAM), one of the larger tests of this class of algorithms to date.

What he can do with these ambitions will be the largest test of America's democratic experiment since the passage of civil rights legislation and, perhaps, the Civil War.

The initial response was the first line of defense for an industry facing the largest test of its clout in years.

This paper also describes the first large scale test of the Emerging Clusters Model.

The cosmics running of the SCT and TRT was the first large scale test of the physics mode of the SCT online software framework.