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The latest downgrade in fourth-quarter GDP, meanwhile, stemmed from a bigger slowdown in the production of inventories — unsold goods — than originally reported.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 9, 2026

Richardson said the building, originally a 'Swiss Cottage' came about after the whole site was bought by "a Liverpool businessman named John Astley Marsden".

From BBC • Apr. 7, 2026

To achieve this, scientists used JQ1, a small molecule inhibitor originally developed to study cancer and inflammatory diseases.

From Science Daily • Apr. 7, 2026

This article, originally published March 28, 2026, has been updated with the committee’s decision.

From Salon • Apr. 7, 2026

He had originally proposed the concept in Hereditary Genius as early as 1869—thirty years before the rediscovery of Mendel—but left the idea unexplored, concentrating, instead, on the mechanism of heredity.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee