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simplex

[sim-pleks] / ˈsɪm plɛks /




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It is based on a modified herpes simplex virus that has been engineered to replicate only inside glioblastoma cells, leaving healthy tissue unaffected.

From Science Daily Mar. 20, 2026

In Fayetteville, North Carolina, in 2020, as in other military towns across the U.S., rates of sexually transmitted infections like syphilis, herpes simplex and HIV are among the highest in the country.

From Salon Jul. 20, 2025

It’s been associated with infections such as the herpes simplex virus and Epstein-Barr virus, as well as Lyme disease and autoimmune disorders.

From Seattle Times Apr. 26, 2024

The viruses—usually benign varieties such as the herpes simplex viruses and adenoviruses that are often modified to make them safer and more potent—can reproduce in tumor cells but not in healthy cells.

From Science Magazine Dec. 4, 2023

That is, presumably each parent carried normality in the trait defective in the other so that the child became simplex with reference to each defect.

From Being Well-Born An Introduction to Eugenics by Michael F. Guyer

We associate qubits with D-simplexes and X and Z parity checks with x and z simplexes, respectively, obeying x + z ≤ D − 2.

From Nature Sep. 12, 2017

Prices of the 48 condominiums in the complex — duplexes and simplexes outfitted with granite countertops and other upscale touches — ranged from about $375,000 to $550,000.

From New York Times Jun. 3, 2011

Then we have a list; as Livy says,691 "simplices et religiosi homines" were ready with them at any time.

From The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus by W. Warde Fowler




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