And new techniques, like optogenetics (which allow experimenters to control brain activity — and hence an animal's behavior — by exposing neurons to light) and fluorescent imaging (which makes it possible to monitor the responses of thousands of neurons simultaneously in awake, behaving animals), make addressing such questions potentially feasible for the first time.
When combined with digital finance -- which includes branchless banking and mobile money -- PAYG technologies can not only expand more rapidly, they can potentially -- for the first time ever -- begin to build a credit history for people living beyond the grid.
The Secret Service must release documents about its investigation into Aaron Swartz to a journalist, a judge has ruled, potentially revealing for the first time the extent of the government's case against the late Internet activist.
Moreover, the substantial increase in detail of the maps over existing products potentially enables, for the first time for many countries, spatial epidemic model construction, high resolution poverty mapping and human movement modelling, amongst others.
Alternatively, to initiate autoimmunity, peripheral DC may prime the immune system to respond to modified self-antigens, potentially generated for the first time in the periphery, either circumventing central tolerance mechanisms or compounding central defects.
In a lifetime they've gone from being disenfranchised because of their sex to casting a vote for, potentially, the first female president of the United States.
Sitting in the workshop, I wonder what it's like to learn about and process gender issues for potentially the first time as a 13-year-old boy.
The development is potentially momentous, because, for the first time, it would bind together, by a single land route, a string of Iranian allies, including Hezbollah, in Lebanon; the Assad regime, in Syria; and the Iranian-dominated government in Iraq.
Even after a new round of voting on Sunday, then, the choices for Spain's politicians may remain very much what they have been for the last six months: a coalition that ushers in a new political order — with new parties potentially in government for the first time — or a coalition that preserves Spain's establishment (the Popular Party supported by the Socialists) against the newcomers.
These results have potentially important consequences for the first mirror material choice in ITER.
It also could mean that disease-causing proteins without active docking sites -- such as those involved in Alzheimer's -- could potentially be "druggable" for the first time.
