degrade
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Researchers can now pinpoint active degraders in situ, map the progression of glycan breakdown through space and time, and quantify turnover rates in complex communities.
From Science Daily • Oct. 19, 2025
"We've known for many years that fungi are nature's degraders," said Hill-Maini, noting that fungi used to reduce streams of food waste could be the "most efficient way to convert waste into human food."
From Salon • Nov. 12, 2024
"Targeting TC-PTP with the small-molecule degraders represents an alternative approach to increase tumor antigen presentation and alleviate the inhibitory constraints on immune cells in the tumor microenvironment for improved immunotherapy," he said.
From Science Daily • Nov. 14, 2023
With the new methods, those proteins, too, are becoming viable targets for degraders.
From Science Magazine • Aug. 31, 2021
It's a glorious field," said Blair, stretching out his arms energetically as though to gather it all in at once, "if we can only occupy it and fence it round before the degraders come.
From White Fire by Oxenham, John
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