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understanding

adjective as in accepting, tolerant

noun as in informal agreement

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“I thought we did a good job, really paying attention to detail, understanding what we wanted to take away and our guys did a good job with that. But offensively, we’ve just got to be better. You shoot 49% from the field and 50% from three and then you have 25 turnovers. So, we’ve got to be better.”

Scientists can now begin to bridge the gap between the earliest and final stages of binary star systems -- two stars that orbit a shared center of gravity -- to further our understanding of how stars form, how galaxies evolve, and how most elements on the periodic table were created.

"Understanding the long-term effects of preterm birth can help us develop preventative strategies and identify interventions to improve the health of individuals who are born preterm," said Asma M. Ahmed, M.D.,

"Answering these questions could help further our understanding of cancer risk and how to better detect and manage cancer in people at high risk," says Dr. Aparicio.

This poses questions for our understanding of "normal" tissues, according to principal investigator Nicholas Navin, Ph.D., chair of Systems Biology.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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