Thetis
Americannoun
noun
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Thetis Pharmaceuticals is planning trials of a synthetic resolvin for cases of inflammatory bowel disease and cancer.
From Science Magazine • May 4, 2022
Justin Nadolny, of the cutter Thetis, calling their survival a “remarkable story of resiliency and grit.”
From Washington Post • Jul. 20, 2021
Through language that, like the sea nymph Thetis, shape-shifts between poetry, lyricism, email transcripts, theater and prose, “Wake, Siren” reveals the violence, the pain and the triumph in age-old tales made poignantly new.
From Salon • Nov. 4, 2019
“The gates will start operating as soon as they are fitted,” says Roberto Chiarlo, manager of Thetis, the monitoring network and environmental measurements department.
From The Guardian • Jun. 16, 2015
In those waters was that most perilous strait guarded by Scylla and Charybdis, which the Argonauts had succeeded in passing only because Thetis helped them and where Ulysses had lost six of his men.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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