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• As an aside to that, it intrigues me (mildly) that whereas the French shortened automobile to auto, the Scandinavians retained the other end, producing bil for car.
Flow cytometric analysis determined that the transferred population of Ad-transduced cells from DO11.hCARΔcyt Tg donors retained the pre-transfer frequencies of GFP +and GFP -cells within the DO11.
Glassman and Hassett now claim that they will sort out the components of retained earnings to avoid double-counting in their forthcoming book.
Some have been retained by becoming standard, often because there is no other convenient or adequately descriptive standard term for the same thing, like Charley horse for a leg cramp; others are genuinely standard words but were applied in a slang context, like chassis for a woman's body; many are not frequent enough to have bored their users sufficiently to drop them, like chew out for scold; some might have been dropped by those who are in, only to be picked up by the squares to make themselves appear to be in, like cheeba for (a) cannabis (cigarette).
Subsequently, the researchers tested to what extent the retained Trp53 copy behaved normally.