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Their goal was to distinguish cells descended from the original population of microglia that had been present since birth from cells descended from blood stem cells in the bone marrow later in life.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026
Flock Safety is introducing new guardrails for its AI-enabled license-plate cameras to stem public backlash and lost business over privacy concerns, Victoria Albert writes for the Journal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Like other producers, Netflix has benefited from improvements to California’s tax incentive program intended to stem so-called runaway production, though Bajaria said the program is not as “comprehensive” as it needs to be.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
The charges stem from last July, when Hilliard was administrator of the university's Nike Elite program and officials notified the internal audit department about concerns with Hilliard.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
He strode up to the stem war leader and fetched him a heavy clout on the shoulder.
From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander
The case stemmed from a broader legal dispute over the renaming of the cultural institution, which US law designates as a memorial to President John F Kennedy.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
The hearing stemmed from a petition animal services had filed that same month against the dog’s owners, Claire M. Birgy and Erick Krasnoff, and cited four separate and unprovoked biting incidents dating back to 2024.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
Most of Donald Trump’s success in politics has stemmed from his reputation as a savvy dealmaker.
From Salon ● Aug. 7, 2026
The NAV drop stemmed from loan write-downs involving assets that the BDC had marked at or near cost just a few months earlier.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
Thus, within a modest time span, enormously diverse island environments were settled by colonists all of whom stemmed from the same founding population.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
Overall, consumer spending has generally held up well despite a series of ongoing supply shocks across the U.S. economy, more recently from higher gasoline prices stemming from the conflict in Iran.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
The city is still facing lawsuits stemming from the 2020 protests over the police killing of George Floyd.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
And Oracle remains in an especially vulnerable position in the overall AI ecosystem — with almost half of its $638 billion backlog stemming from a single customer, OpenAI.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
"The sediment is home to 'gourmet' bacteria that apparently prefer fresh carbon stemming from, for example, more recent algal remains over the 'old' carbon from permafrost deposits," explains Gesine Mollenhauer.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 3, 2026
Why did Austronesian people, stemming ultimately from mainland China, colonize Java and the rest of Indonesia and replace the original inhabitants there, instead of Indonesians colonizing China and replacing the Chinese?
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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Photosynthesis - Middle School
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Photosynthesis - High School
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