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  • He then refused to back that statement up for hours and called people 'fos' liars … I wonder why things disintegrated …

    Think Progress 2009

  • He then refused to back that statement up for hours and called people 'fos' liars … I wonder why things disintegrated … jay Says:

    Think Progress 2009

  • Though genes such as fos and hsp70 have been known to be regulated by elongation, our results identify multiple critical developmental regulators such as Distinct patterns of RNAPII occupancy at putative Spt5 target genes.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Keerthi Krishnan et al. 2008

  • “And maybe old fos gets lucky, and meets the woman of his dreams.”

    Matthew Yglesias » Endgame 2010

  • And maybe old fos gets lucky, and meets the woman of his dreams. wiley says:

    Matthew Yglesias » Endgame 2010

  • So you think every company that has proprietary software and a public API is fos?

    Thoughts on Opera Unite | FactoryCity 2009

  • In the decade between 1983 and 1993, a horde of other oncogenes and anti-oncogenes (tumor suppressor genes) were swiftly identified in human cancers: myc, neu, fos, ret, akt (all oncogenes), and p53, VHL, APC (all tumor suppressors).

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

  • In the decade between 1983 and 1993, a horde of other oncogenes and anti-oncogenes (tumor suppressor genes) were swiftly identified in human cancers: myc, neu, fos, ret, akt (all oncogenes), and p53, VHL, APC (all tumor suppressors).

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

  • She wished he'd brought hers from her younger days, when she, too, mined with her fos ter fathers out among the asteroids.

    Massage 2010

  • In the decade between 1983 and 1993, a horde of other oncogenes and anti-oncogenes (tumor suppressor genes) were swiftly identified in human cancers: myc, neu, fos, ret, akt (all oncogenes), and p53, VHL, APC (all tumor suppressors).

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

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