pretreatment
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They discovered the two groups of pretreatment tumors could be reliably distinguished by a set of genes with 135 of the genes turned up and 5 turned down.
From Science Daily • Feb. 23, 2024
The pretreatment seemed to desensitize the animals to the hormone’s effects later on.
From Science Magazine • Dec. 13, 2023
Adriana Toro with Broward County Mosquito Control said the county has stepped up spraying for mosquitoes and is doing pretreatment on larvae.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 6, 2023
Beyond the disruption, SpaceX also outlined other major additions to its plans, including the creation of a natural gas pretreatment plant, used to purify methane to be used in the Starship rocket.
From The Verge • Jun. 13, 2022
The tests are not satisfactory because pretreatment was not uniform and there is insufficient data on penalties which are omitted.
From Northern Nut Growers Association Thirty-Fourth Annual Report 1943 by Northern Nut Growers Association
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