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mechanism

[mek-uh-niz-uhm] / ˈmɛk əˌnɪz əm /




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Over time, this mechanism reduces the number of LDL receptors, making it harder for the body to keep blood cholesterol under control.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 1, 2026

Did the coordinated particle motion mean that these much smaller collisions were also producing quark-gluon plasma, or could another mechanism explain the observations?

From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026

Teng also describes how the hackers used "a self-destruct mechanism that destroyed tooling and traces as they went, making it more difficult for us to trace and investigate".

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

Efforts to refine the lacklustre Cali Fund -- a UN mechanism for sharing profits from corporations that use genetic data from plants and other organisms -- have also proved difficult.

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026

Weismann had proposed a radical alternative: perhaps hereditary information was contained exclusively in sperm and egg cells, with no direct mechanism for an acquired characteristic to be transmitted into sperm or eggs.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Scientists also want to investigate whether other commonly used pesticides interfere with the same cellular mechanisms.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 1, 2026

So many of our bad habits are survival mechanisms, ways to make it through one more day.

From Slate ● Nov. 1, 2026

"While the practical mechanisms will be developed on the go, the new MPs will stick to the students' 1200-page long and detailed plan," he told the BBC.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

These mechanisms are used, among other things, to deploy wing flaps during the plane's landing approach, helping to slow the aircraft.

From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026

This phenomenon was exciting for researchers trying to understand the mechanisms of cancer, because it suggested that they might be able to study the moment a normal cell becomes malignant.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot


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