hybridization

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Harrison then made California a principal originator of the hybridization of Eastern and Western music.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 1, 2025

Herders sometimes favor hybridization because genes from wild progenitors are thought to enhance the hardiness of domestic stock.

From Science Daily • May 29, 2024

Baker notes that the lineage that led to blueberries, for instance, is the result of an ancient hybridization between dogwoods and the ancestors of coffee plants, daisies, and mints.

From Science Magazine • Apr. 23, 2024

“It’s part of this paradigm shift of appreciating that hybridization can be a constructive process,” says Chris Jiggins, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Cambridge who was not involved in the study.

From Science Magazine • Apr. 17, 2024

As a Ph.D. student, he’d used HeLa to help develop something called fluorescence in situ hybridization, otherwise known as FISH, a technique for painting chromosomes with multicolored fluorescent dyes that shine bright under ultraviolet light.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot