I have come to think of this as the Devil's Theory of Innovation; cutthroat (or scrape-cheek) competition tends to produce mere stasis.
Buccal cells were collected by the subjects themselves under instruction from the interviewer, by scraping the cheeks with cytobrushes, using 4 cytobrushes by subject (2 for each cheek).
Mr. Albardaner, a Barcelona architect, took more than three months off work, called 2,000 Coloms and persuaded 225 of them to scrape their cheeks at his Center for Columbus Studies in Barcelona.
The 15-year anniversary of what is still, to this day, the funniest thing to happen on a football pitch since Lineker scraped his grubby cheeks across the muddy ground.
He taught us to play poker, and when I watched him shave as a young boy, he'd cover my face, too, scraping down his cheek, and then skimming mine with the back of a comb.
ONE end of a flax string clenched in her teeth, Mei Yu Chen rolled the other methodically from side to side against her client's cheek, scraping the skin as she went.
(He also scraped his finger along my cheek and shook his head, indicating that I needed to stop shaving; the Salafis are known for growing long beards in the manner of the Prophet).
Briefly, the participant washed her mouth with water twice, then using gloved hands and a sterile buccal cytobrush (Gentra Puregene Buccal Cell Kit, QIAGEN, Germantown, MD), gently scraped the inside of her cheek ten times.
This Schneider image, included in "Gary Schneider: Genetic Self-Portrait" at the International Center of Photography uptown, is actually his darkroom rendering of a much-magnified specimen: a cell scraped from the inside of his cheek.
Officials scraped some cells from the inside of her cheek for chromatin testing.
