Most species, in fact, avoided test plots where researchers had removed all of the fruit.
Using the chip, the researchers in California tested tissue removed at surgery from 86 prostate cancer patients.
In the latest experiment, the researchers removed ovarian tissue from African elephants and froze it.
Using listwise deletion, the researcher would remove subjects 3, 4 and 8 from the sample before performing any further analysis.
The old method had another limitation - it did not allow researchers to selectively remove genes.
For the new analysis, the researchers removed a control group of nearly 500 health-care workers and made other statistical adjustments.
The researchers removed the gonads of some of the mice.
In the 20th century, researchers removed the trees in the course of work at the mound and park preparation.
The researchers then blindfolded the volunteers, moved them backward and removed the blindfold.
The researchers removed guppies from the two populations and waited until the females had offspring.