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And the paper was fortunately able to get a minute with Robert Kraut of Carnegie Mellon University to get his explanation that it's very natural for human beings to shorten words.
A plausible explanation for the lack of nmt55/p54 nrbprotein detection with polyclonal antibody NMT-4 is a point mutation in the epitope for polyclonal antibody NMT-4, a post-translational modification, such as phosphorylation, in or near this epitope or an alternative splice variant affecting this epitope.
Commercial constraints are the likely explanation for this, not, I strongly suspect, lack of new words and senses in the ever-burgeoning English lexicon.
The most plausible explanation is that the observed changes are mediated by altered rates of translation.
Thus, play ball with seems obvious; but mad as a hatter , though properly a simile, needs an explanation; play possum is meaningful only to those who have been told what it means or have had direct experience with the behavior of opossums.