One blogger neatly summarised the objections to the character, saying she "is the crystallisation of a thousand misogynist myths and fears about female behaviour.
Dr Collis, for example, reckons that only a quarter to a third of all protein targets are amenable to efficient crystallisation and structure-based design.
The raw protein they contain is then purified automatically and passed on to Agincourt, a crystallisation robot.
It is also creating an in-house unit for generating protein crystallisation data.Alan Collis, the head of chemistry for Aventis in America, says that, during post-merger talks between Aventis's parent companies (Hoechst of Germany and Rhone-Poulenc of France) in 1999, the company realised that it had a serious "skills gap" in genomics and chemistry.
At its heart is not just a shocking story of evil and transformation, but also a crystallisation of man's greatest dilemma, his relationship with himself.
Agincourt can run up to 140,000 crystallisation experiments at once to find the best conditions for coaxing a sample of protein to form crystals.Meanwhile, imaging devices which take digital snapshots four times a second work out when the sample is ready.
Ordered molecular structures arise spontaneously, for example in crystallisation or in the formation of a snowflake.
Because the process of crystallisation can be scaled up relatively easily, Dr Matzger, whose work was funded by America's Defence Threat Reduction Agency, thinks this new explosive could make a bigger bang soon.
The resulting "electroweak" force is a first step towards reconstructing the cosmic magma.In mathematical terms, each crystallisation from the magma is described as the breaking of a symmetry.
The operation can be divided in three parts: dissolution of the mineral, purification of a barium-radium salt, separation of radium from barium by fractional crystallisation.
After this first enrichment the active salt is again purified particularly by the elimination of a residue of lead, and is transformed into bromide for the continuation of fractional crystallisation (the use of bromide was suggested by Giesel).
