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Researchers then applied methods to force CAR T cells to overexpress FOXO1, which turned on memory genes and enhanced their ability to persist and fight cancer in animal models.

From Science Daily • Apr. 10, 2024

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

Furthermore, neuronal cells that overexpress α-synuclein have a defect in the trafficking of glucocerebrosidase to the lysosome26, 27, which points to a positive feedback loop.

From Nature • Nov. 8, 2016

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