populations
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The Food and Drug Administration has already approved a handful of these drugs for cancers with small patient populations or with other treatment options.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
Changes in these microbial populations have been suggested as a potential influence on cancer risk, although further research is needed to establish their role.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026
The result was something like a biological logbook, documenting the sequence of events that gave rise to different cell populations.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026
The rate of lactose intolerance is higher in certain populations, such as Africans, Asians, and Latinos.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
The one-sidedness of that exchange of germs becomes even more striking when we recall that large, dense human populations are a prerequisite for the evolution of our crowd infectious diseases.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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