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secrete

[si-kreet] / sɪˈkrit /




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RNA-based monitoring may offer an advantage because cancer cells actively secrete RNA rather than passively shedding DNA.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 17, 2026

Species known as Anthony's poison arrow frog and the Phantasmal poison frog are among those that secrete the toxin onto their skin.

From BBC ● Feb. 15, 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

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

We had only one battered paperback copy of “Brown Face, Big Master,” and though the book was secreted away, I found it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

It mimics a hormone secreted alongside insulin that signals fullness and slows gastric emptying.

From Barron's ● Apr. 27, 2026

We analyzed cell-free RNA from 25 cancer cell lines across 9 tissue types and found that about 30% of oncRNAs are actively secreted.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 17, 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

Joe found a gaff hook in the barn and began to carry it secreted in his pocket.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

"Our findings indicate that ERRγ is responsible for regulating the differentiation and maturation of these acid secreting PCs."

From Science Daily ● May 10, 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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