He also said no identifiable DNA was found in scrapings from under the victim's fingernails.
Before Dr. Urist's discovery, physicians had long known that scrapings from healthy bone stimulated healing when applied to major fractures.
To prepare the pastry cream, combine in a medium heavy-bottom saucepan 2 1/2 cups of cream and scrapings from the vanilla bean; discard the bean.
A colleague Stuart Piertney took scrapings from the membrane lining the inside the mystery egg and shavings from a toe-pad from one of the two courser skins.
Vladimir Puchkov, head of the Russian Emergencies Service, said: "Swabs and scrapings from all fragments of the [crashed] plane, baggage and soil have been taken by Russian experts.
In the Aura of Boxing, the chalk, paint, charcoal and found objects are replaced by the blood, saliva, sweat and scrapings from the body, all held within the detritus of the torn boxing canvas.
The convict, Larry Peterson, won a 10-year court battle in 2003 to get DNA testing on hair, semen and fingernail scrapings from the body of the victim, Jacqueline Harrison of Pemberton Township.
Mr. Dixon said that he and the agency's consultants collected dozens of scrapings from the mine and an adjoining cleaning plant, which were then shipped to a laboratory for testing.
Vegetable and fruit scraps from the kitchen go into the giant compost heaps, as do the scrapings from the farm's barns and the piles of compressed herbs used for the soap and beauty products.
When the case was tried, DNA testing was still a new and relatively primitive technology, so it was not conducted on a hair found in Ms. Negron's hand, the scrapings from her fingernails, or on hairs found near her genitals.
The problem was contaminated "scrapings" from yellowfin tuna carcasses, but for sushi enthusiasts there is a secondary, aesthetic concern: even pristine tuna shouldn't be reduced to a pulp and mixed with sriracha and mayonnaise.
