Sentence examples for ability to shrink from inspiring English sources

Iressa had been given accelerated approval based on its ability to shrink tumors.

MOST improvements in modern electronics are driven by the ability to shrink the size of components to truly diminutive proportions.

Whether this is adjusting gravity or adding the ability to shrink or grow characters, there is a sense of fun and freedom to the whole game.

In that ordinary realm, the movie's premise — a person gaining the ability to shrink at will — becomes all the more startling and gleeful.

On Tuesday in the journal PLoS Biology, the researchers describe the first fruit of this approach: a drug that shows a promising ability to shrink tumors.

With the movie version imminent, clearly someone is betting that the world wants to watch a superhero with the ability to shrink to the size of an ant and use a fancy helmet in order to control ants.

This is because the assumption of normality of competing abilities tends to shrink these differences towards 0. This bias decreases with more information, but even with a very large number of events (50) per horse, the estimates of repeatability are still biased (0.215).

It is the ability to constantly shrink those transistors that has driven the industry.

This time around, he wanted to "open up and be in actual San Francisco," which created its own challenges, particularly since the new movie is also playing with Scott's ability to both shrink and increase his size.

At stake is the future of what electronic engineers call scaling, the ability to continue to shrink the size of electronic circuits, which is becoming harder to do as they become as small as viruses.

This is in contrast to the reported ability of TSLP to shrink tumours in Notch-deficient skin (Demehri et al., 2012), but in agreement with the potent tumorigenic effect of TSLP in breast and pancreatic cancers (De Monte et al., 2011; Pedroza-Gonzalez et al., 2011).