Sentences with phrase «t of agar»

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When Gordon Lithgow at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging in Novato, California, and colleagues grew the soil - dwelling nematode Caenorhabditis elegans in agar plates soaked in thioflavin T — a dye used to visualise clusters of amyloid beta protein — they found that the worms lived 30 to 70 per cent longer than average.

Thatcher could support the reforms, Agar argues, because she «had lived the life of the working research scientist, as a final - year chemistry student in Dorothy Hodgkin's x-ray crystallography laboratory, as an investigator of glues for BX [plastics company] and as a food chemist for Lyons & Co.... [I] t was precisely because Thatcher knew what scientific research was like that made her impervious to claims that science was a special case, with special features and incapable of being understood by outsiders, and therefore that science policy should be left in the hands of scientists.