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Free from the confines of the International Festival’s rules and regulations, the Fringe has become synonymous with art that “pushes the envelope,” and it has grown to eclipse its more staid official brother.
By increasing the rate at which deleterious mutations appear, APOBEC3G pushes viruses over this edge, causing a form of ‘lethal mutagenesis’ that results in their destruction; the rate of mutation becomes so high that no genome can reproduce itself faithfully, and the population crashes.
When the water from the bucket arrives at the bottom of the water pipe, it pushes against a flap valve, thereby opening the valve and watering my bean field.
According to the Dictionary, a chute is the name for the slot (over the drop box ) through which the dealer pushes the money paid for chips at a gaming table.
One GPIbα polymorphism is referred to as "VNTR" because it consists of a variable number of tandem repeats of 39 base pairs, each repeat leading to a 13-amino acid addition that pushes a vWF-binding domain further away from the platelet membrane surface.