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dose

noun as in portion of drug or other consumable

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Use of gene therapies becomes more challenging as patients age and grow, because treating them often requires higher doses of the inactivated viruses used to deliver the replacement genes.

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Patients exposed to music required lower doses of propofol and fentanyl.

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To boost the flavor, it seasons it with a heavy dose of Chinese spices that are also used for the duck recipe.

Often the doses of functional ingredients in coffees "are too low to replicate the effects reported in research trials", she adds.

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Since multiple doses are needed, this requires highly invasive procedures.

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