perturb

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Some possible treatments have looked to block the origin of the itch to relieve the sensation, Gualdani said, “but it seems if we perturb this pathway, we also perturb eventual itch relief.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 21, 2026

Overall, there's nothing here that would perturb a consumer.

From BBC • Apr. 10, 2025

Using this epigenomic editing technology, the researchers can "perturb" candidate regions to see whether any tested genomic regions can impact downstream gene expression.

From Science Daily • Sep. 22, 2023

A deficiency can perturb the proper formation of those circuits, Eyles and his colleagues have found.

From Scientific American • Mar. 13, 2023

The news didn’t perturb him as much as excite his curiosity.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy