In healthy individuals, after a meal, when blood sugar levels are high, the body releases insulin to break down the sugar, removing it from the bloodstream and rendering it into a usable form of energy.
As for Celera's wish to prevent competitors from selling its data, "That is taking a whack at the entire sector that seeks to take this sequence and provide it in a usable form," Dr. Collins said.
Fortunately for the government, FBI agents took detailed notes, preserved the evidence, and are still offering it up in usable form.
Congress's limitations on the ATF collecting gun sale data and compiling it into a usable form are not only wrong-headed, they are yet another area in which the gun lobby has managed to pervert the system to put the interests of zealots ahead of public safety.
Yet while parts of South Yorkshire still suffer from June's floods, the Environment Agency has moved to stop an outside site offering its flood mapping data in a more usable form.
Today, though, the harsh truth is the Fed doesn't know what the figure is, or whether it even exists in a usable form.
Alders benefit other plants growing near them by taking nitrogen out of the air and depositing it in the soil in usable form; fallen alder leaves make very rich compost.
It's abundant but hard on the environment and inefficient because it requires energy to turn it from fossil fuel to a usable form.
In the hundreds of 19th-century scrapbooks I have examined for a book in progress, I've found that Americans overwhelmed by the proliferating cheap press shaped the flood of print into usable form by organizing it in scrapbooks.
The completion of the discovery was made by Sir Howard Florey and Dr E. Chain, when they showed how to prepare the substance in usable form, and demonstrated that it could be successfully applied to the treatment of disease.
Although new information about the structure and function of organs accumulates daily in the scientific literature, much of it must be laboriously translated into more usable form before mathematical modelling can even begin.
