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overexpress

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Worms engineered to overexpress fmo-2 showed little reaction to positive or negative changes in their surroundings.

From Science Daily Nov. 13, 2025

Ridley is called upon to express and overexpress, at each given moment, one given emotion, while Driver underexpresses, suggesting competing emotions.

From The New Yorker Dec. 19, 2019

Conversely, genetically engineered mice that overexpress Clstn3b in brown adipocytes had lower body weights than wild-type mice and improved cold tolerance, and were resistant to diet-induced obesity and glucose intolerance.

From Nature Apr. 30, 2019

Alternately, reverse genetics can be used to cause a gene to overexpress itself to determine what phenotypic effects may occur.

From Textbooks Apr. 25, 2013

They found that the longevity boost in this case came from DNA that had been inserted into the genome as part of the construct used to overexpress --not to the gene itself.

From Scientific American Sep. 21, 2011