perturbation

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But with 76 years of data to measure against, “we can provide the context needed to answer the question of, how big of a perturbation is this event?”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 29, 2025

The researchers could introduce a genetic perturbation and see how that might affect the network and an individual's health.

From Science Daily • May 23, 2024

But the human body has about 20,000 genes, and a genetic perturbation could be on a combination of genes or on any of the over 1,000 transcription factors that regulate the genes.

From Science Daily • Oct. 2, 2023

While there, he studied a key node of the mammalian immune system — dendritic cells — and their perturbation in HIV/AIDS.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 2, 2023

Tamika’s head lifted and our eyes met, her face a smashed-up combo of curiosity and perturbation.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas