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• n  someone who suppresses
  dictators are suppressors of free speech
• n  a gene that suppresses the phenotypic expression of another gene (especially of a mutant gene)
• n  an electrical device for suppressing unwanted currents

• It said that its suppressor had cut jet noise below the level promised purchasers of the 707, making it slightly less noisy than a Super Constellation.
• Some, known as oncogenes, turn on cell division, whereas others, called tumor-suppressor genes, are responsible for switching the process off.
• A normal immune system has twice as many helper Tcells, which stimulate the making of antibodies, as it does suppressor Tcells, which keep antibody production under control.

• suppresser
• suppressor gene
• suppresser gene

News & Articles

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• Frontiers news briefs: 27 June
  ( Frontiers ) In this week's news briefs: The benefits of endophytic bacteria; clustering the lexicon in the brain; and how oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes can contribute to chromosomal instability.
  June 27, 2013 - EurekAlert!
• Mirna Therapeutics and Horizon Discovery Publication Elucidates Novel miR-34 Tumor Suppressor Pathway, Underscores miR ...
  Mirna Therapeutics, Inc. and Horizon Discovery Ltd. announced today the publication of new data providing further confirmation that microRNA-34 , and the tumor suppressor pathways it controls, is an important potential target for a wide variety of cancers.
  June 26, 2013 - Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance

Quotes

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• John Howard in Reuters.uk
  I believe there is something quite heroic about a country that is going through the pain and the suffering that Iraq is going through, yet still extends due process to somebody who was a tyrant and brutal suppressor and murderer of his people,...
• Andrea in SpiritIndia
  This study provides critical genetic evidence that continuous repression of a tumor suppressor gene is required for a tumor to survive,said Andrea Ventura, an Italian postdoctoral associate in the Center for Cancer Research and first author...
• Daniel in EurekAlert (press release)
  This is the first X chromosome gene directly implicated as a tumor suppressor,says Daniel A. Haber, MD, PhD, director of the MGH Cancer Center and senior author of the report, which will appear in the journal Science and is receiving early...