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In one interview in 2024, he struggled, external to name a favourite novel and when he appeared on Radio 4's Desert Island Discs he picked an atlas as the book he would take with him.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
The aim is to build an atlas of how diet interacts with the body, and to pinpoint which molecules really matter for health.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 17, 2026
Almost every resident carries a private atlas of vanished places: Regal Cinema, the old Coffee House, Urdu bookshops in Daryaganj, winter evenings at India Gate before barricades and security cordons reshaped the city.
From BBC ● May 25, 2026
An agreeable companion on the page, Mr. McCarthy prefers scenic parkways to multilane highways and amusingly relies on a Rand McNally road atlas instead of phone-enabled navigation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 14, 2026
This was Veronika, as she waved the page ripped from the atlas.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
Histological atlases map its architecture at cellular resolution using microscopic images of tissue slices.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
His meticulous survey takes in dozens of sources, from the obscure to the well-known: pamphlets to legal codes, sermons to atlases, maps, travel narratives, even journals kept by ships’ captains.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
The Nazi atlases “were like documents of death. The atlases that Shiv is creating are really living, interactive tools to support life.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2024
Eventually, the team envisions uLIPSTIC as a key tool in the effort to generate comprehensive atlases describing how cells interact to form tissue -- a key to the long-awaited interactome.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 6, 2024
“We shall have no more atlases covered in dust,” she said, in a voice so firm and resolute that, for once, the children found they had no choice but to do as they were told.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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