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"We've made several attempts over time to identify the receptor, so this is an exciting moment," says senior author Cynthia Sears, M.D.,
From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026
Other attempts to expand voting help for people with disabilities were meanwhile unsuccessful.
From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2026
Richardson then drove off before stopping in a country lane and twice getting out of the vehicle in attempts to pull Mr Mullins free, the jury was told.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
Although he never became president despite three attempts, Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas sparked an insurgent democratic movement that ultimately led to the opening of Mexico’s authoritarian regime to political competition and free elections in the late 1990s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
The genome project, in turn, inspires attempts to understand human variation and “normal” behavior in terms of genes.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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