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We believe the lack of positively selected variants spanning antigenic site D may explain a decades-old puzzle.
The purveyors of spirits complain that the decades-old ban doesn't apply to beer and wine, and cite this as the reason why grapes and hops have been gaining market share against the hard stuff.
Thus, we propose a variation of the classic 'ternary complex model' (Figure 8), a decades-old paradigm that has provided the foundation for describing ligand induced conformational changes of GPCRs [ 31 ] .
The decades-old "check and balance" relationship between the DOE and the DOD squares the needs of the people who are responsible for the safety, control, and stewardship of nuclear weapons with those of the people who decide whether to use the weapons.
The question is, will they do it with a decades-old plane designed to fight the battles of the past, or one designed to fight the battles of the future?