Example Sentences

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"Initially, I thought we must have sequenced some alien species. It's very rare for an active gene, which makes a protein, to not have a match."

From Science Daily • Mar. 26, 2026

So far, scientists have sequenced the genomes of 1000 dogs and cached 14,000 tissue samples.

From Science Magazine • Jan. 7, 2024

Since then, scientists have sequenced 18 Neanderthal genomes, said lead author Laurits Skov, a geneticist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 19, 2022

And of the world’s nearly 6,000 mammalian species, scientists have sequenced the ACE2 receptors of just a few hundred of them, creating a biased data set.

From New York Times • Feb. 22, 2022

Scientists have sequenced delta's mutations but are still trying to understand their significance, said Angela Rasmussen, a virologist at the University of Saskatchewan's Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization.

From Salon • Jul. 29, 2021