perturb

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Some possible treatments have looked to block the origin of the itch to relieve the sensation, Gualdani said, “but it seems if we perturb this pathway, we also perturb eventual itch relief.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 21, 2026

Using this epigenomic editing technology, the researchers can "perturb" candidate regions to see whether any tested genomic regions can impact downstream gene expression.

From Science Daily • Sep. 22, 2023

Because it's so vast, and so poorly understood, Prof Schmidt added, "the worry is that we'll start destroying those ecosystems - and perturb all these vital processes - that we really don't understand".

From BBC • Nov. 9, 2021

“The very act of trapping the atom can perturb it,” Ye says.

From Scientific American • Sep. 9, 2021

The news didn’t perturb him as much as excite his curiosity.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy