This anomaly is indicative of the larger challenge of culturing various microbial species, referred to as microbial “unculturability.” This cannot be explained by the use of agar alone or by the substitution of an alternative gelling agent, but rather by the difficulties in consistently recreating on an agar plate the multi-variable environment in which microbes grow naturally. Given such challenges, the risk of shortages, and the vulnerabilities of the agar supply chain, why is it so difficult to find suitable alternatives?
In de Bolle's view, the Trump administration has an "imperialist vision" of Latin America that leads it to see the region's resources as its property. For her, private oil firms' aversion to Venezuela is a welcome barrier to that kind of resource grab.
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