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World Service,17 Oct 2005,23 mins

Faster tests for bird flu

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The chip technology that claims to cut the cost of testing for viruses and bacteria. Following fears about the spread of bird flu, a way of testing that could help speed things up. Also in the programme, a computer called George that thinks it's human, a car called Stanley and nimble-fingered film makers.

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