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These experiments could be expanded to large-scale screens (St Johnston 2002), but this would be time consuming and could encounter the problem that some genes will be cell lethal, preventing the analysis of their function in actin dynamics.
It said Blair had the scientific justification for such a gesture and that if he had decided to make it (which he didn't), it "would without doubt have had the merit of calming the enormous storm of Francophobia that is consuming the British Isles at the moment."
Collection of clinical samples is expensive and time consuming, and it is probable that progress in identifying genes involved in stroke will be incremental.
But Yeats' talent was huge: It survived by consuming its own weaknesses.
Although the optics are not quite as good as with our earlier approaches, the chamber approach is less time consuming and can be used for automated time lapse.