Dr David Penney, an amber expert at the University of Manchester, told The Telegraph: "Intuitively, one might imagine that the complete and rapid engulfment in resin, resulting in almost instantaneous demise, might promote the preservation of DNA in a resin entombed insect, but this appears not to be the case.
"That's what sculpture can do, it can be a pure engulfment and absorption in the material world, when you're not even aware of yourself, when you have no self consciousness, and you're not being watched and you're just purely absorbed in the material world.
While the exact mechanism for escaping phagocytosis is unclear, it may occur because capsules make bacterial surface components more slippery, helping the bacterium to escape engulfment by phagocytic cells.
His research included such varied topics as tuberculosis, food preservatives, phagocytosis (engulfment of particles by cells), and anaphylaxis (reaction of an organism to a foreign substance) and a systematic arrangement of the class of microorganisms called Schizomycetes.
When she was hugged, especially by a favorite (and vast) aunt, she felt overwhelmed, overcome by sensation; she had a sense of peacefulness and pleasure, but also of terror and engulfment.
In a flood of anguished letters from Berlin (reminiscent of Victor Klemperer's diaries of gradual engulfment), she was recording a week-by-week tightening of the German noose.
"I want you to have a sense of comfort, engulfment.
As he felt her mouth's engulfment, he acquiesced, disappointment melting like ice in hot cream.
Herzog is entranced by cataclysm, engulfment by lava and ash, by endings.
Some of Levy's colleagues preferred the term "octopus mother," with its intimations of slimy engulfment.
