Example Sentences

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Reactivating this gene after birth could help bypass defects in the adult globin gene that cause Sickle Cell diseases.

From Science Daily • Jan. 5, 2026

Reactivating that pathway “is perking up those areas” so they conduct electrical signals more like when they were younger, Rentschler explained.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 27, 2023

Reactivating the same brain cells that encode this information is enough to swiftly summon the peripheral immune system to defend at-risk tissues.

From Scientific American • Nov. 8, 2021

Reactivating John Carpenter’s classic slasher franchise feels like a way to align Blumhouse with horror’s blue-chip-properties past but it has just as much confidence in its self-generated material.

From The Guardian • Apr. 12, 2018

Reactivating head regrowth in a regeneration-deficient planarian species.

From Nature • Nov. 21, 2017