secrete
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Who would have thought serums infused with snail mucin - the sticky substance they secrete - would become a part of skincare routines around the world?
From BBC ● Jan. 2, 2026
These creatures, more commonly known as violet snails, are distinguished by their striking purple shell and the delicate bubble raft they secrete to stay afloat in the open ocean.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2025
Her team pays attention to other stress markers, such as that they secrete mucus when biologically stressed.
From Salon ● May 13, 2025
In particular, goblet cells -- cup-shaped cells that secrete mucus -- expressed those genes only in the presence of ILC2s, a kind of immune cell.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 21, 2024
Maybe: they secrete chemicals the way insects do, or perhaps the movements of their eyestalks is a form of language similar to the dance of a bee.
From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson
He coats the eggs with glue secreted from his legs and attaches clusters of egg sacs to his own body while they develop.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 25, 2026
It mimics a hormone secreted alongside insulin that signals fullness and slows gastric emptying.
From Barron's ● Apr. 27, 2026
I, however, wandered around the block onto a nondescript residential street seeking out a building with a secreted Ftarri sign.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2025
This led the team to investigate how these proteins are secreted into the plant's sap.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2025
These were not the expressions of children who had been kidnapped and secreted away against their will.
From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart
The researchers found that the CTSK+ stem cells achieve this suppression by secreting a growth factor protein called IGF-1, and possibly other regulatory proteins.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2023
The researchers isolated vSSCs from people undergoing spinal surgery and found that human vSSCs secreting MFGE8 were more likely to interact with cancer cells than vSSCs that were not secreting the protein.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 14, 2023
He adds that this is the first record of land-dwelling invertebrates producing and secreting this particular neurotoxin.
From National Geographic ● Aug. 4, 2023
The bacteria works by secreting a small molecule, known as harmane, which inhibits the early stages of the malaria parasite growing in the mosquito's gut.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2023
Their enemies are now dead so there is no need for the mites to spend their energy in secreting protective webbing.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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