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  • Regulation during early development of C. elegans from the US National

    Andrew Z. Fire - Autobiography 2007

  • One of this character can never be a refined judge; never what the comic poet calls elegans formarum spectator.

    On the Sublime and Beautiful 2007

  • The UT Southwestern researchers sought to pin down the action of hemiasterlin, so they worked with the tiny research worm C. elegans, which is often used for genetic studies but not often used to test drugs.

    Study reveals mechanism for cancer-drug resistance 2007

  • One of this character can never be a refined judge; never what the comic poet calls elegans formarum spectator.

    On Taste. Introductory Discourse 1909

  • The presence of an operculum seems to have been of importance, as out of twelve specimens of Cyclostoma elegans, which is thus furnished, eleven revived.

    XIII. Geographical Distribution-Continued. Absence of Batrachians and Terrestrial Mammals on Oceanic Islands 1909

  • For some minutes the hum of the voices drowned his admonitions -- but as, by degrees waxing warmer in the cause, he called out more loudly, -- every eye was turned to the spot from whence these extraordinary sounds proceeded; and certainly the appearance of Nicholas at the moment was well calculated to astonish the "elegans" of a drawing room.

    The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Volume 1 Charles James Lever 1839

  • For some minutes the hum of the voices drowned his admonitions -- but as, by degrees waxing warmer in the cause, he called out more loudly, -- every eye was turned to the spot from whence these extraordinary sounds proceeded; and certainly the appearance of Nicholas at the moment was well calculated to astonish the "elegans" of a drawing room.

    The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Complete Charles James Lever 1839

  • Schneider said he and Lyon decided to name the plant "elegans," for its elegant qualities of symmetry.

    Vail Daily - Top Stories 2009

  • This was taken up by the Platonic School of Chartres, such that Alan of Lille could say that God was the elegans architectus who constructed the universe and ordered it as the divine geomancer.

    The Theology and Metaphysics of the Gothic Cathedral - part 3 2009

  • In neuroscience it is the 300 neurons of the roundworm C. elegans that stand in the way of our understanding the huge collections of neurons found in our or any mammal's brain.

    Mark Changizi, Ph.D.: Artificial Brains: Not in This Century Ph.D. Mark Changizi 2012

  • The team found that worms such as the widely studied Caenorhabditis elegans are most likely to form towers when there are large numbers of them, a shortage of food and some kind of structure for them to congregate on – in these experiments, a toothbrush bristle.

    Worms team up to form tentacles when they want to go places Michael Le Page 2025

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