specificity
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"This is a very positive signal -- we now know it's possible to exploit this specificity to target certain cancer cells," says Jean-Claude Martinou.
From Science Daily
What her books lack in character diversity, they make up for in specificity.
From Los Angeles Times
Their AI model demonstrated very high sensitivity and specificity when identifying acromegaly from the hand images.
From Science Daily
Sensitivity is how well a test identifies disease while specificity is how well it avoids false positives.
By examining evolutionary relationships between uracil sensors and related sensory domains, the team found that ligand specificity can change relatively easily over time.
From Science Daily
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