Beowolf: Dragonslayer Rosemary Sutcliff (Red Fox Classics, £4.99) Myths and legends are being plundered to great effect by such writers as Alan Gibbons, Robin Jarvis, Adele Geras and Melvin Burgess, pulling potent narrative threads through their recent novels.
One compound, called Probe 8, proved to be the most potent in a pull-down assay and demonstrated a TIR1-dependent auxin-antagonistic response in Arabidopsis thaliana.
William Helmreich, a sociologist who wrote about Weequahic in "The Enduring Community: The Jews of Newark and Metrowest," was stunned to find how potent the neighborhood's pull remains on Jews raised there a half-century ago.
It is yet more potent than its exponential pull on young Muslims, its huge arsenal of weapons and its hundreds of millions of dollars.
Known for a potent memory that helped him pull together results from widely disparate fields of research, Mr. Kaula nevertheless constantly jotted down facts that interested him in small notebooks that he always carried.
Fried garlic, beans, nuts, dried shrimps, chilli, tomato, lime and a good lashing of ngapi, a potent fish paste, are all pulled out of little containers in a whirr.
Nakashima et al. found that the Michael acceptor on the side chain of cucurbitacin E was important for its potent antiproliferative activity, and they pulled down cofilin from cell extracts with a biotinylated derivative of cucurbitacin E, although it is not clear if the interaction is direct or indirect [31].
