And recent talks have now ramped up with recent comments from the Warriors star himself.
That last step in the cascade ramped up the production of cells that damp down inflammation in the mice -- and even cured them of a mouse model of diabetes type 1, an autoimmune disease.
Meanwhile, large agribusinesses have ramped up production, slaughtering 15m more animals than the previous year.
75 billion yuan, as the Chinese tech group ramped up revenues on the back of its wildly popular mobile games.
China arrived relatively late to space travel but has ramped up its program since its first manned spaceflight in 2003, more than 42 years after a Soviet cosmonaut became the first to reach orbit.
Like many other companies in Southeast Asia, Sime Darby had ramped up borrowing in the expectation of better economic times that failed to materialise.
As global private banks vie for the region's rapidly growing private wealth, they have ramped up marketing tactics - often at the expense of profitability - with the hope of attracting new customers and grabbing a bigger share of existing clients' cash.
Security has also been ramped up around the perimeter of the lake and, when Daily Mail Online visited, it was being patrolled by a boat-load of armed soldiers while security personnel stood guard at each entrance.
Kao has ramped up production in Japan to its limit, and has attempted to take greater control over its ecommerce sales into China.