The radioactive supernatant containing released Cr was soaked off with cotton wool (Scatron Titertek harvesting system; Scatron, Suffolk, UK) and transferred to a Gamma counter (Canberra-Packard, Frankfurt, Germany).
It's an all-hands-on-deck kind of thing". Until recently, many of the ancient weaving customs of Chinchero, which are rooted in the stunning biodiversity of the area -- from natural dyeing to harvesting alpaca wool -- had all but disappeared for decades, during which chemical dyes and machine weaving pushed out the old techniques.
No systematic harvest of this wool, which is called "qiviut" has ever been attempted.
The llamas were sheared either as a fashion statement or a "harvest" of their wool.
After washes, the cells were finally harvested on glass wool filters with a suction-water-wash apparatus, dried, and counted in a beta scintillation counter [57].
Spores were harvested in water and filtered through glass wool to remove hyphae.
Peasants harvesting in the summer would take off their drab wool tunics and strip down to their linen undershorts.
A sheep's wool is the most widely used animal fiber, and is usually harvested by shearing.
Conidia were harvested into 0.05 % Tween 80, filtered through glass wool to remove residual mycelia and adjusted to 10 conidia per milliliter calculated using a hemocytometer.
Individuals in region 3 are mainly dedicated to sheep farming, sheep shearing, and, in some cases, the manufacture of wool, while individuals in region 4 work on tasks related to the cultivation, harvesting, and packaging of pears, apples, and plums.
Effector splenocytes harvested from naïve mice and chimeras were lysed and passed through wool mesh to enrich for T lymphocytes (∼70%).
