Intestinal epithelial renewal is mediated by intestinal stem cells (ISCs) that exist in a state of neutral drift, wherein individual ISC lineages are regularly lost and born but ISC numbers remain constant.
It makes sense for inclusion in an animated children's film about creatures with wild hair that exist in a state of near-perpetual ecstasy, but as a pop single, it felt too one-dimensional and plain.
Like John he felt, he was a voice crying out in the wilderness, condemning a corrupt modern Europe, embracing the ideal of non-Western cultures that existed in a state of moral innocence.
In the past three posts of my series on California charters (here, here and here), I highlighted some of the serious problems that exist in a state with weak governing laws, a powerful lobby propped up by billionaires, and a governor who consistently vetoes bills aimed at charter reform.
Poly methyl methacrylate), PMMA, is a widely used engineering polymer that exists in a glassy state at room temperature.
"Through photographing the trendiest fashions and nightlife outside Moscow, extravagant architecture along with remnants of Communism, my ongoing project seeks to illuminate a city of raw and dilapidated beauty that exists in a liminal state at the gates of the East".
Shaker Heights, Ohio, is a comfortable, peaceful, progressive suburb of Cleveland, a carefully planned community incorporated in 1912 that exists in a gentle state of idyll, sustained by adherence to the "rules, many rules, about what you could and could not do". It's a marvelous setting for a novel, reminiscent of the sleepy fictional villages that are forever being ravaged by murder.
It's a city that exists in a permanent state of critical mass, just about avoiding a total implosion by pushing its brokest residents further into the peripheral sprawl and freeing up space for clueless rich people who'll keep the city on life support.
"It's time for the percolator" could, really, mean anything, because as we all know by now, language is nothing more than an intangible concept that exists in a permanent state of total fluidity wherein it means both nothing and everything at once.
