1.   Glenn will furnish medical specimens and data that may furnish new insights into bone and muscle deterioration that occurs in astronauts.

2.   They will also move more than a ton of Russian hardware and experiment equipment, including medical specimens, to the shuttle.

3.   A device that measures the activity of genes in medical specimens has been used to identify two different types of leukemia, researchers report.

4.   Nanometer drawing might also be used to create DNA arrays, a type of organic assembly that can be used to identify genes in blood or other medical specimens.

5.   When the rods are mixed with a medical specimen, lab technicians can identify the proteins by looking at the banded patterns on the rods.