endogenous

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“The power of any single speakership is endogenous,” he said.

From Washington Times

"It turned out that the antibodies are recognising remnants of what's termed endogenous retroviruses," Prof Julian Downward, an associate research director at the Francis Crick Institute, told me.

From BBC

As her court filing indicated, she "has not experienced and will not experience endogenous puberty."

From Salon

But when it is artificially added to processed foods, it is seen at levels “1,000 fold higher than endogenous levels,” the researchers wrote.

From Washington Post

HERVs, or human endogenous retroviruses, make up around 8% of the human genome, left behind as a result of infections that humanity's primate ancestors suffered millions of years ago.

From Salon