resistance
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High levels of IL1RAP appear to help maintain both tumor growth and resistance to treatment.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 2026
That is met by a resistance from television executives and the practicality of New York life, with many fans unlikely to arrive at Flushing Meadows much before 7pm.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
Once bullish momentum picks up again, the commodity should resume its uptrend toward initial resistance at $4,500 per ounce, the analyst adds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
Garcetti positioned Los Angeles as a can-do alternative to the bureaucracy and resistance Lucas had encountered elsewhere.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026
But instead of the resistance I’d expected, the plastic dome pops off immediately.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
The most powerful ones have to be used as rarely as possible, to give bacteria fewer opportunities to develop resistances.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2024
Though mosquito insecticides exist, the pests are developing resistances, and advancements are needed to reduce their numbers and slow the spread of pathogens they carry, including the malaria parasite and the Zika and dengue viruses.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 8, 2024
In the 1940's and '50's, when humans first began taking antibiotics, the resistances were already in the environment and worked their way into the bacteria that cause human infection.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 29, 2024
Over time, populations within any species of bacteria emerge with one, then two or more resistances to antibiotics, until we get potentially untreatable super strains.
From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2023
That something seemed to have rules and resistances of its own, ones that did not stem from me.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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