pretreatment
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They discovered the two groups of pretreatment tumors could be reliably distinguished by a set of genes with 135 of the genes turned up and 5 turned down.
From Science Daily • Feb. 23, 2024
The pretreatment seemed to desensitize the animals to the hormone’s effects later on.
From Science Magazine • Dec. 13, 2023
Beyond the disruption, SpaceX also outlined other major additions to its plans, including the creation of a natural gas pretreatment plant, used to purify methane to be used in the Starship rocket.
From The Verge • Jun. 13, 2022
But when they had all that rain that came right before the snow, it would have washed away any kind of pretreatment that was on there anyway.
From Washington Post • Jan. 8, 2022
The tests are not satisfactory because pretreatment was not uniform and there is insufficient data on penalties which are omitted.
From Northern Nut Growers Association Thirty-Fourth Annual Report 1943 by Northern Nut Growers Association
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