function
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In a landmark 2020 study, Hablitz, Nedergaard, and colleagues demonstrated that glymphatic function follows daily cycles even independently of sleep, establishing a direct link between circadian biology and the brain's waste-clearing system.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026
In animal models, treatment with urolithin A improved measures of heart function by as much as 80% compared with models that did not receive the compound.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026
A compound produced in the body after eating pomegranates improves heart function by up to 80% in a type of heart failure with limited treatment options.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026
Urolithin A has attracted growing interest in recent years because of its links to healthy aging and mitochondrial function, a process in the body which generates energy.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026
His face glows red in the flashing light of the remote-pilot function.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
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When basic government functions are carried out visibly and consistently, they can seem extraordinary - particularly because so many people have come to expect otherwise.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026
The order also restored LAHSA’s other core functions — operating the homeless database and the housing matching system and conducting the annual homeless count.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
"Our results show that proteins can have important biological functions that are completely independent of their enzymatic activity," says corresponding author Stefan Kubicek, Principal Investigator at CeMM.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026
Specifically, both Russia and Ukraine have deployed drones with autonomous functions using AI on the battlefield to recognize targets, navigate and self-guide to targets.
From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2026
Outside of group functions, they rarely talked to each other at school.
From "The Parker Inheritance" by Varian Johnson
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They combined molecular data with measurements of how the plants functioned under realistic environmental conditions.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026
At first, the account functioned like a group chat for local surfers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
The reassignment is part of broader organizational changes that have the effect of making DeepMind—which Google acquired in 2014 and has functioned as a semiautonomous operation—more tightly integrated with the rest of the company.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
In the years following its acquisition by Google, the London-based DeepMind primarily functioned as an independent research entity instead of a integrated product unit.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026
In fact, he was directing an organization that functioned very like a secret service, which not many years before had been part of the security and intelligence services of the Crown.
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
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In both diseases, particular hindbrain neurons progressively stop functioning.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026
The results showed that the Wide Field Instrument is functioning as expected.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026
Seeley and his colleagues demonstrated how personality is, at least partly, brought into being by neurons that are specifically tailored to synthesize social functioning.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
The report states that there was no functioning smoke detection, fire alarms or sprinkler system.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
That is to say that they all but ceased their functioning as ears.
From "The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread" by Kate DiCamillo
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