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The findings prompted the team to conclude that the gene Samd9L is responsible for suppressing leukemia and MDS.

Gene responsible for suppressing leukemia identified

This gentleman has a vested interest in suppressing the black voter turnout in this state," says John Hickey, executive director of the Missouri Progressive Vote Coalition.

Bullies at the voting booth

In Communist areas and those influenced by religious fundamentalism, they are no longer content with suppressing individuals; they destroy all objects and buildings linked to freedom of worship," Father Cervellera said.

In Asia, a trend to destroy Catholic schools

Rather than suppressing symptoms, as with common 'traditional' drugs, homeopathic formulas work naturally, without fear of overdosing or contraindications.

Taking our health higher with homeopathy

Censorship, in the sense of suppressing a text or discourse, in this case was very local.

Dorothy Auchter. Dictionary of Literary and Dramatic Censorship in Tudor and Stuart England

Research on the potential anticancer drug rapamycin has revealed a possible new mechanism for suppressing large numbers of genes simultaneously, rather than each gene individually.

Rapamycin throws a Master switch. (Cancer)

Extracts from blueberries and blackberries weren't effective against the two cervical cancer cell lines tested, but they suppressed breast cancer cell growth--each fruit suppressing a different cell line.

Berries curb cancer cells. (Science Update)

SMART does not question the tactical wisdom of maximally suppressing HIV RNA once a patient undertakes a HAART regimen.

SMART: background, concepts, and design

With PTGS, viral mRNA or mRNA precursors are produced incorrectly and quickly degrade after synthesis, suppressing viral infections by limiting the accumulation of the viral RNA.

A Study of the Developmental Rate of the Systemic and Local Induction of Posttranscriptional Gene Silencing and the Suppression of Posttranscriptional Gene Silencing in Nicotiana tabacum

ACORN (Association of Community Orgnaizers for Reform Now) sees the case strictly as an example of a landlord suppressing tenants' rights to organize.

ACORN to meet owner in court

By contrast, in 1984 Ronald Reagan ran as an unchallenged incumbent who was able to fully orchestrate his convention, suppressing all conflicts between moderates and the new right, the country club traditionalists, and the Christian fundamenlists.