I stood, immobilised, for a moment.
Rather than being attached to a shark's head, used to intimidate an immobilised secret agent or vaporise a rebel planet, these lasers are kept safely in the projection booth.
In general, such chips use immobilised proteins, peptides, lipids or small molecules to study the interaction of proteins in a sample.
On December 8th Kay Gilderdale, a policeman's ex-wife, was arrested on suspicion of killing her 31-year-old daughter, bedridden and virtually immobilised for 16 years with a virulent form of chronic-fatigue syndrome (ME).
An immobilised president who lacks the numbers to put his measures through Congress might just as well be trussed up in a crate.Unless he is an escapologist, that is.
After each wash they analysed the cloth for residual content from the stain: albumin from egg; cellulose from grass; and so on.The upshot was that the combination of the cheap non-enzymatic detergent and the immobilised enzymes in the beaker gave results four or five times better than those provided by pricey enzymatic detergents in untreated beakers.
What frightens her is the possibility that we will become so immobilised by dreams and shadows, so free of pain, mentally standardised by the cyber-world that is our principal habitat and rendered oblivious by chemicals, that we will have lost the ability to choose.
And as if that weren't bad enough, ducks on some French and Canadian farms are confined to iron maiden like cages that keep them virtually immobilised.
The research is also hoped to help scientists understand more about the condition which also affects the bedridden, people with muscular dystrophy and diabetes, people immobilised by casts and the elderly.
The singer's gruff baritone, which has never been the most exquisite of instruments, is in remarkably good nick, given that he had two strokes in 2005, which resulted in impaired speech and an immobilised right hand (preventing him from playing guitar).
