alter
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Researchers created a platform called PerturbFate that can systematically track how disease related genetic changes alter cells and identify where those changes ultimately converge.
From Science Daily • May 21, 2026
Bombastic yet intimate, fantastical yet sensible, Colbert’s farewell to his Comedy Central audience and his conservative alter ego was about as lovely and loving as TV can be.
From Salon • May 21, 2026
Levine’s office also submitted a shareholder proposal to alter Exxon’s new retail shareholder voting system.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026
The study used computer modelling to understand how climate change could alter how nutrients reached Windermere and Esthwaite Water.
From BBC • May 20, 2026
The ways in which nature pushes back alter as we alter.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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