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  • noun biochemistry Faulty regulation (of gene expression)

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  • Some of us thought the original misregulation was misnamed "deregulation" by the lefties in the press who don't understand that retail price controls and other nonsense like the weird wholesale market they constructed are not consistent with deregulation.

    California Reality, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • The clear indication to me was her wanton misregulation of the mining industry.

    Sarah Palin’s abysmal environmental record 2008

  • Deficiencies of calcium and Vitamin D may well correlate with cancer, but I suspect by means of a mass-action chemical mechanism interacting directly with DNA or misregulation of a repair mechanism or partial misregulation of oxidative processes.

    Wells at ASCB - The Panda's Thumb 2005

  • "We have a catastrophically bad misregulation of the financial system," said

    NYT > Home Page By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF 2011

  • Instead repeat-containing RNAs are thought to sequester proteins in the nucleus, causing misregulation of normal cellular processes.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Morgan A. Sammons et al. 2010

  • There are liquidity traps, but they occur when banking systems are broken due to misregulation.

    GuruFocus Updates - 2010

  • Mbnl1 belongs to a three-member family, and the role of specific Mbnl family members may further refine our understanding of the transcriptional misregulation that leads to specific symptoms All experiments were performed in accordance with the institutional guidelines of the University of California at Los Angeles.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Anna Matynia et al. 2010

  • There are liquidity traps, but they occur when banking systems are broken due to misregulation.

    GuruFocus Updates - 2010

  • Experimental data shows the ribonuclear complexes sequester similar sets of proteins in the nucleus, apparently causing misregulation of normal cellular processes, in particular RNA splicing

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Morgan A. Sammons et al. 2010

  • Instead repeat-containing RNAs are thought to sequester proteins in the nucleus, causing misregulation of normal cellular processes.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Morgan A. Sammons et al. 2010

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