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One research approach involves using a drug to activate all cells harboring the HIV genetic information.
Both scenarios activate areas of the brain involved in conscious decision-making and emotional responses.
And we've got to preserve our own democracies, but we've got to also activate our own democracies.
They activate the immune system so that the immune system can be more vigorous in protecting us from cancer.
There is untapped agricultural capacity in the Sahel, and all it takes is changing market conditions to activate that capacity.
So if this piece of data or this piece of the data gets clobbered, it doesn't show up over here, these two pieces can activate the missing part with these redundant connections.
Normally, when we speak, the brain sends neurosignals through the nerves to your internal speech systems, to activate them and your vocal cords to produce speech.
And so we, in the mixing process, have to develop the gluten, we have to activate the leaven or the yeast, and we have to essentially distribute all the ingredients evenly.
To do this, we showed 14 to 24-month-old infants how to activate a toy robot, and importantly, we either assigned a positive value, saying "Wow, isn't that great!" or a negative value, saying, "Oh, oh.
So we simply showed infants how to activate the toy robot, but didn't assign any values, and we also didn't tell them that they could play with the remote, providing them with a really ambiguous situation.
The virus also inserts genetic information to activate the T cells and program them into their killing mode.
We have to activate thousands of officers, hundreds of companies around the world if technology will allow us to outrun the perpetrators and dismantle the communities that are normalizing child sexual abuse around the world today.
Adila has the perfect solution: a data crystal that she’s been carrying for years, waiting for the right moment to activate it.
Which thrusters should you activate?
For the COVID-19 pandemic, we're designing RNA sensors to detect the virus and freeze-drying these along with the needed cellular machinery into the fabric of a face mask, where the simple act of breathing, along with the water vapor that comes with it, can activate the test.
Here we activate it.
These people know their sense of purpose, and they activate in their life, that's worth about seven years of extra life expectancy.
There were two sides: We had to solve the chemistry for making large DNA molecules, and we had to solve the biological side of how, if we had this new chemical entity, how would we boot it up, activate it in a recipient cell.
They accidentally activate a portal and arrive in another dimension, where Chicago was destroyed by a Spider Queen and inhabited by mutants.
A majority of the movie has foreign language, but you can activate the subtitles.
I approach most movies with a jaundiced eye, because most of them activate no thought, creativity or originality.
Robot Toby finds friends among orphaned children and robots down on the ground before he has to fight the robotised President Stone (Donald Sutherland) who wants the blue power source used to activate Toby (now called Astro).
This approach has meant that once interest rates reach or approach zero, central banks have little choice but to activate large asset-purchase programs that are supposed to stimulate demand.
The SDR donation scheme would activate resources that are currently idle, benefiting donors and recipients.
But this stability fuels fears that Somaliland’s people will activate the declaration of independence they adopted in 1991.
At their most recent summit, European Union leaders reiterated their commitment to finalize the design of a single supervisory mechanism by January 1, 2013, and to activate it by the end of next year.
To be sure, if the market fell sharply, the Fed would activate the “Greenspan-Bernanke Put,” providing large amounts of liquidity to distressed intermediaries.
But it will take time to activate that demand, for what is now being produced around the world for industrial-country consumers cannot simply be shipped to emerging-market consumers, especially the poorer ones among them.
An alternative option would be to activate the European Central Bank’s “outright monetary transactions” program, in which the ECB would purchase eurozone member states’ bonds in secondary markets.
Scientists have discovered that vitamin D is necessary to activate the immune system’s T-cells, which identify and attack bad pathogens circulating throughout the body.
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