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It targeted a rare disease with a defined genetic cause, showed a clinical benefit in some patients, and used a well-characterized natural history for comparison.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 7, 2026

In the current study, the researchers used a well-characterized pharmacologic compound called P7C3-A20, developed in the Pieper laboratory, to restore NAD+ balance.

From Science Daily Dec. 24, 2025

Because the number of well-characterized odor molecules for training AI “sniffers” has greatly expanded since the competition, he thought he could do better.

From Science Magazine Aug. 30, 2023

Measures of shyness and boldness are not the entirety of animal personality; they’re just relatively well-characterized and easy to measure in the field.

From New York Times Nov. 25, 2022

Moreover, well-characterized Orthoptera and Neuroptera occur as early as the Devonian strata; Coleoptera and Hemiptera in the Coal-measures; Hymenoptera and Diptera in the Jurassic; Lepidoptera, on the contrary, not until the Tertiary.

From On the Origin and Metamorphoses of Insects by Lubbock, John, Sir