1.   The exercise is designed to test techniques for deploying large but lightweight inflatable structures.

2.   Another clinical study is testing a technique called photodynamic therapy.

3.   But Dr. Swain argues that doctors often must test new techniques on dying patients who have no other options.

4.   Fogarty says they have also begun collaborations with about a dozen corporate partners that will test the technique in goats, cows and pigs.

5.   Halberstadt has successfully tested the technique only in rats but has high hopes for its success in humans.

6.   He has successfully tested the technique in rabbits.

7.   He plans to start testing the technique in boars next month.

8.   In his view Rembrandt belonged to a different age in which an artist might use a self-portrait to test his techniques and increase his fame.

9.   Mouse rooms and monkey colonies, where gene insertion techniques must be tested before being tried in patients, do not come cheap.

10.   Much research, Olson cautions, is needed before the technique can be tested on humans.