One researcher admits that when she encounters cowbird nestlings or eggs, she often casts aside scientific protocol and flings them to the ground.

He admitted he did not always follow scientific protocol for experiments.

"Our clinical applications ran way ahead of our scientific protocols," Mr. Burch said.

"If we follow scientific protocol it could take 5 to 10 years before in vitro fertilization clinics add human cloning to their repertoires."

Quartzy's Protocols module provides a more standard approach to keeping track of scientific protocols and sharing them with lab personnel.

But then, in April, the agency announced that Centocor had violated scientific protocol in analyzing the drug.

In one sense, Dr. Sacks's mining of life's aberrations follows standard scientific protocol.

The result is a purposeful confusion of scientific protocols in which "sound science" becomes whatever the administration says it is.

This stage would obviously add serious diplomatic challenges to an already complicated scientific protocol.

Reflective markers are part of the scientific protocol and allow further quantified motion analysis for joint disorders follow-up.