secrete
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Beavers were hunted to extinction in Britain 400 years ago for their meat, furry water-resistant pelts and a substance they secrete called castoreum - used in food, medicine and perfume.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2025
Her team pays attention to other stress markers, such as that they secrete mucus when biologically stressed.
From Salon ● May 13, 2025
Hairs covering the stems, leaves and flowers have glands that secrete a sticky substance containing prenylated phenols, which cause an itchy rash, according to Lewis.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 5, 2025
Dr. Lyden and colleagues have found in prior research that tumor cells secrete snippets of EV-DNA from across their genomes, including pieces with cancer-associated mutations.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 3, 2024
Bono had, I ascertained, connived to secrete them when we had removed to this house from the town; having no use for them upon his exile, he had left them for me.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
It mimics a hormone secreted alongside insulin that signals fullness and slows gastric emptying.
From Barron's ● Apr. 27, 2026
The team then narrowed their focus to proteins that are secreted outside cells, a key feature of hormones, and that contain multiple potential cleavage points.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 12, 2026
Due to their strength, they can be secreted in small volumes in parcels.
From BBC ● Feb. 12, 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
Then a goose came forward and confessed to having secreted six ears of corn during the last year’s harvest and eaten them in the night.
From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell
"This is a tumor suppressor mechanism that had not been described before, and we think the cancers that can turn it off, by secreting less EV-DNA, have a better chance of spreading," Dr. Wortzel said.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 3, 2024
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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