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atlas

[at-luhs] / ˈæt ləs /






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The atlas also establishes a detailed reference for healthy mouse brain tissue.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026

New technology allowed us to find and catalog such networks—to construct an atlas of the mind.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

“Just as an atlas is a collection of maps, linking together features of the land like altitude and location, AlphaGenome Atlas charts the molecular effects of DNA variants across the genome.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

In one interview in 2024, he struggled, external to name a favourite novel and when he appeared on Radio 4's Desert Island Discs he picked an atlas as the book he would take with him.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

Their weird library had St. Exupéry but nothing so secular as an atlas of the world, so I had to work from memory.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

Histological atlases map its architecture at cellular resolution using microscopic images of tissue slices.

From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026

They hold thousands of maps and atlases of everything from cave networks to mountain ranges to capital flows to the surface of the moon.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025

The Nazi atlases “were like documents of death. The atlases that Shiv is creating are really living, interactive tools to support life.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2024

Eventually, the team envisions uLIPSTIC as a key tool in the effort to generate comprehensive atlases describing how cells interact to form tissue -- a key to the long-awaited interactome.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 6, 2024

As in all atlases, there were two completely blank pages at the very end.

From "The BFG" by Roald Dahl


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