de novo
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Novel material science also includes de novo chemical combinations for batteries that can store more energy with faster charge cycles and lighter weight.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 16, 2026
The drug works by impairing one arm of purine production, the "de novo" pathway.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 1, 2023
“Currently … it goes through a de novo review before an administrative law judge, which means a new body of records is created,” she explains.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 28, 2023
"The tRNA neochromosome is the world's first completely de novo synthetic chromosome," says Cai.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 8, 2023
The mitochondria do not arise de novo in cells; they are always there, replicating on their own, independently of the replication of the cell.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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