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A select group of signature chemicals were extracted from an organic-poor soil (Figure 1) and identified with instruments that eventually can be miniaturized for use on space exploration missions [ 13 21 22 ] . Actual electron transport by living cells was confirmed by use of two specific dyes (DCIP and XTT) that short-circuit respiratory electron transport chains.
The respiratory electron-accepting dyes DCIP and XTT were used to "short-circuit" microbial electron transport, and this was observed (dye reduction) by visible spectroscopy.
You can short-circuit the biology of erection, but that doesn't "fix" the nonbiological problems that exacerbate and sometimes even trigger impotence.
Now universities short-circuit this process by lobbying Congress for earmarked appropriations.
But this in turn raises another issue: Does Ofili want us to ask whether he is any good, or does he not short-circuit the evaluative process by making art contrived to raise hell with Catholics and excite a frisson of old-time anticlericalism in the rest of us?