polyp
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Its AI platform helped figure out that targeting a certain protein in the body was likely to help treat an inherited colorectal polyp disorder.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 2, 2026
Amy, a lawyer from London, was forced to think about children after finding out she had a polyp in her womb - which could impact her chances of conceiving.
From BBC ● Dec. 8, 2024
In fact, during one of her sessions, Nyong’o injured her vocal cords, which forced her to remain silent for three months to avoid surgery for the polyp that had formed on her throat.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2024
In one sequence, marine biologists lovingly restore a rehabbed coral polyp to a reef.
From New York Times ● Apr. 21, 2024
“T. nutricula is a jellyfish that can actually revert its body to the polyp stage. To its younger self!”
From "The Fourteenth Goldfish" by Jennifer L. Holm
Coral is made up of tiny individual animals called polyps, which maintain a symbiotic relationship with microscopic algae that live within their tissues.
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026
It received Food and Drug Administration approval for the polyps procedure in 2025.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
That’s why the gold standard is a colonoscopy, a minimally invasive procedure that uses a scope with a camera to examine the large intestine’s lining for precancerous or cancerous polyps.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 4, 2026
It can also check for polyps which can develop into cancer.
From BBC ● Mar. 31, 2026
Preformationism assumed that new life was never created, yet in 1741 Abraham Trembley showed that you could cut a polyp into a dozen pieces and it would turn into a dozen polyps.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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