interrupters

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Those characteristics include the same number of exons, which encode the protein, and phases of introns, which act as interrupters to stop or start splicing of the RNA molecules transcribed from the gene.

From Science Daily • Jan. 30, 2024

Tyrone Parker, executive director of the nonprofit Alliance of Concerned Men, said the District’s ecosystem of violence interrupters and other support programs aren’t collaborating with each other to squash the blood feuds.

From Washington Times • Sep. 20, 2023

It also employs credible messengers on the streets and violence interrupters in a D.C. hospital who work directly with shooting victims to mediate conflicts.

From Washington Post • Dec. 30, 2022

And the Police Department said in a prepared statement that it “routinely collaborates with violence interrupters, local clergy, local organizations, community stakeholders and other city agencies to stem youth violence.”

From Seattle Times • Dec. 28, 2022

He paused and faced squarely round upon his interrupters, turning his back on the tribunal.

From Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile by Murray, David Christie