interrupters
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Those characteristics include the same number of exons, which encode the protein, and phases of introns, which act as interrupters to stop or start splicing of the RNA molecules transcribed from the gene.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 30, 2024
Tyrone Parker, executive director of the nonprofit Alliance of Concerned Men, said the District’s ecosystem of violence interrupters and other support programs aren’t collaborating with each other to squash the blood feuds.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 20, 2023
The city began making significant investments in violence interrupters five years ago, and programs run by D.C. and the independently elected attorney general have expanded.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 31, 2022
Violence interruption works: There was a 31% drop in homicides and 19% in shootings in two Chicago districts where interrupters worked.
From Salon ● Dec. 26, 2022
Impatient and derisive exclamations were hurled at him; men sitting near M'Ginnis shouted back at the interrupters.
From The Black Opal by Katharine Susannah Prichard
