pathogen
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In aging animals, most neutrophils that never encounter a pathogen quickly enter senescence, a dysfunctional state in which they can release harmful chemicals that damage nearby cells and promote inflammation.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 3, 2026
It was a sick new business model and digital pathogen.
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026
The virus was detected this month in a Phillip Island penguin that had died, the first infection in the colony by a pathogen that has caused severe disease and death in birds worldwide.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
Salmonella, a bacterial pathogen, is one of the most common causes of food poisoning.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026
For practical purposes, the fact that feeding is interrupted promptly is of course an enormous advantage, for crop damage stops almost as soon as the pathogen is applied.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
Global tech stocks fell on the calls to hit the brakes on AI, which has fueled fears that superintelligent computer systems could go rogue and wipe out humanity by creating pathogens or triggering nuclear war.
From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026
C3 drew particular attention because earlier research has suggested that activation of the complement system, a network of proteins that helps defend the body against pathogens, may contribute to chronic inflammation.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026
As people move deeper and deeper into ecosystems and territories where few, if any, had lived before, they risk interacting with pathogens that were previously confined.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
The prospect of AI helping people develop deadly pathogens or other biological hazards has long been a concern among AI safety experts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
These diseases must have been the evolutionary survivors of far more pathogens that tried to make the jump to us from animals—and mostly failed.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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Common Senses: Path ("Feeling")
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