quiescent
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Alexis adds, "If we want to achieve long-term control of peoples' tumors and prevent tumor relapse, we have to focus on these dormant quiescent cancer cells, and have to understand more about them."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 6, 2026
“Core inflation away from the fast-moving segments that are impacted by energy have been very quiescent, and I think we are going to continue to see that,” he said.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 2026
They then cross-matched the findings with a catalog of 2.4 million quiescent galaxies compiled over recent decades by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.
From Science Magazine ● Jun. 17, 2024
"We found that TILs from metastatic uveal melanoma have the potential to attack the tumor, but something in the tumor microenvironment is shutting them down, so they're in a dormant, or quiescent, state," explained Kammula.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 16, 2024
And up from the quiescent, waiting land a faint mist rose, silver as moonlight, and clung about the tree trunks.
From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck
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