Among the prohibited substances the state will test for are blood-doping agents, gene-doping agents and protein- and peptide-based drugs, including toxins and venoms.
Starting this season, Major League Baseball will test for human growth hormone and high levels of testosterone, leaving the N.F.L. well behind on that score.
Before the embryos are placed in the womb, some doctors will test for sex and, if there are enough embryos, let the parents decide whether to insert exclusively male or female ones.
"There are hundreds of chemicals that can be found in your water," Mr. Friedman said, "but there is no single test you can buy that will test for everything".
Oh, yeah, in case it went unnoticed, the Giants also last week became a billboard for ephedra, the commonly used stimulant that the National Football League has banned and will test for starting July 1.
The proposal means that "neither federal inspectors nor companies involved will test for a potentially deadly pathogen in meat going to millions of school children nationwide," said Carol Tucker Foreman, director of the Food Policy Institute of the Consumer Federation of America and a former Agriculture Department official in the Carter administration.
The probes are designed so that sets of probes on the GeneChip will test for the expression of particular genes.
We will test for other weights in the future on more experiments in order to choose the better or best weights for some other applications.
This time, the researchers will test for methylation of the FMR1 gene at the outset, and patients will take the drug for 3 months.
We will test for interaction between age and APACHE II or SAPS II scores and for interactions between age and each of the four organ dysfunctions (cardiovascular, respiratory, hematologic, and renal).
Former world champion Casey Stoner will test for Honda in Japan next month, heightening rumours he could return to MotoGP, although Honda deny he will be used as a wildcard this season.
