susceptibility
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"We can preemptively screen different species and different tissues within them for susceptibility," said Kuchipudi.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 23, 2026
"These age-related changes, known as immunosenescence, lead to a decline in immune resilience and an increased susceptibility to age-related chronic inflammatory diseases," Kirkwood explains.
From Science Daily ● May 19, 2026
Pandemics happen with regularity due to little things like the susceptibility of the human body to illness and international trade and travel.
From Salon ● May 11, 2026
A lack of trust in government and health systems in the UK "underlaid susceptibility to false information", it added, and said action was needed to rebuild public trust in vaccines more generally.
From BBC ● Apr. 16, 2026
In the north, in fact, the areas with the poorest natural endowments and the greatest susceptibility to drought were the most populous and successful.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
He is one of the 90% of people with so-called idiopathic disease: Their Parkinson’s has no clear genetic cause but almost certainly results from some combination of ill-defined genetic susceptibilities and environmental triggers.
From Science Magazine ● May 4, 2023
Social media, he says, exacerbate some dangerous susceptibilities — to demagoguery and moral vanity — that are neither new nor entirely expungable.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 31, 2021
Jeff Bardin, the chief intelligence officer at cybersecurity firm Treadstone 71, told Fox News that almost immediately after Soleimani's death, Iranian hackers began infiltrating U.S. city websites, searching for susceptibilities.
From Fox News ● Jan. 3, 2020
Without the plant host susceptibilities, the pathogen would starve before the plant got sick.
From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2018
And the writer, as if unwilling to wound the susceptibilities of his readers, has taken care to hurl contempt at the only character whose family was distinctly not respectable.
From The Making of a Saint by Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)
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