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glue

[gloo] / glu /


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The molecular glue form of degraders were discovered serendipitously.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

I published one of the first R.E.M. fanzines, sitting at my kitchen table in my third-floor Hoboken tenement walkup with an X-Acto knife and a glue stick.

From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026

Doncic and returning guard Austin Reaves are the glue that holds the puzzle together.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026

He coats the eggs with glue secreted from his legs and attaches clusters of egg sacs to his own body while they develop.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 25, 2026

She dragged the bucket inside the box and used glue and tape to make a control panel on one side.

From "Wolfie & Fly" by Cary Fagan

In 2012, Verdine launched a biotech, Warp Drive Bio, to look for molecular glues out in the wild.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

Nvidia glues everything together with software called CUDA, short for “compute unified device architecture.”

From Barron's ● May 29, 2026

"These often have added chemicals, flavourings, stabilisers and glues, are often lacking many real nutrients and could have a detrimental effect on someone's health," she said.

From BBC ● Feb. 23, 2026

But despite its water-sensitive glues and exposed hydraulics, the seahorse completed its route intact.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 3, 2026

If you sit on them too long in the summer while wearing shorts, the plastic nearly glues to your legs.

From "The Hate U Give" by Angie Thomas

And Taylor Farms would certainly top the list for anyone glued to a toilet bowl lately, thanks to the company’s alleged indiscretion handling lettuce laced with the “explosive diarrhea” parasite.

From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2026

Many through their hands, families are glued to the screen.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

Dogs snored next to their owners, who were glued to their phones, screens lighting up weary faces.

From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026

When she recovered her porcelain figures from her Altadena home, with bits of her studio forever glued to their surface, she wondered what would happen if she refired them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026

The addition of the ion was critical: with the solution supplemented with magnesium, the ribosome remained glued together, and Brenner and Jacob finally purified a minuscule amount of the messenger molecule out of bacterial cells.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

“How much can we add to it? How much can we get away with gluing onto this thing?”

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 2026

New offences were created including interfering with national infrastructure, "locking on" – chaining or gluing yourself to something – and tunnelling underground.

From BBC ● Mar. 28, 2025

Other recent protests have involved activists blocking highway traffic in various parts of Italy, and gluing hands of activists to the protective glass of a Botticelli painting in the Uffizi Gallery.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 7, 2023

They and colleagues also measured birds’ appetites by gluing clay models of caterpillars onto branches.

From Science Magazine ● Oct. 19, 2023

“And gluing my locker shut wasn’t? Good job on not admitting that, by the way.”

From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia


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