express
verb (used with object)
to put (thought) into words; utter or state.
overexpress
-
a word derived from
express.
Example Sentences
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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
