Erna

[ur-nuh]

noun

1. a female given name: from an Old English word meaning “eagle.”

Example Sentences

The Conservatives lost ground with 14.6% and their leader, former prime minister Erna Solberg, has said she is unlikely to stand again.

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He is fighting off a challenge from a bloc made up of two conservative parties: the right-wing populist Progress Party under Sylvi Listhaug, 47, which has risen in popularity, and the Høyre party of ex-Prime Minister Erna Solberg, which is looking to return to power.

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More recently, in 2010, researchers discovered that these enhancers are transcribed into RNA molecules, known as enhancer RNA or eRNA.

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This raised the possibility that measuring eRNA transcription levels could help researchers determine when an enhancer is active, as well as which genes it's targeting.

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However, this kind of mapping has proven difficult to perform because eRNA is produced in very small quantities and does not last long in the cell.

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