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It means that something has decreased by a factor of two, or has been halved. Example: The company's profits were reduced twofold due to the economic downturn. In this example, the sentence is saying that the company's profits were cut in half.
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The permeability of the silane silica hybrid coating on PET was reduced twofold compared to that of the SiO2/PET film, at solution concentrations as low as 1 wt.%, irrespective of the pH.
Because of the sensitization, the lethality in EP-treated cells could be increased from 0 to 90% simply by increasing the exposure duration, or the exposure dose could be reduced twofold without reducing the effect.
mEPSC frequency was reduced twofold in Lrp4 mutant neurons, although the mEPSC amplitude was normal.
The latter was reduced twofold although subjects on higher therapeutic steps remained more likely to die even after allowance for other risk factors including best function.
High levels of H3K4me2 and me3 showed a local maximum at approximately −0.7 kb and were reduced twofold to threefold across the entire ∼3 kb domain in the absence of CTCF.
Interestingly, we identified two genes whose transcripts were significantly reduced (twofold or more and a paired T-test P ≤ 0.05) in strain SS3 compared to strain 8b in both rich medium and hydrolysate conditions.
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ZMO0153 was upregulated approximately twofold (P = 0.015), and ZMO0774 was reduced approximately twofold (P = 0.011).
Moreover, in 16 differentiated thyroid cancer tissues, TACC3 mRNA levels were found, with respect to normal matched tissues, reduced by twofold in 56% of cases and increased by twofold in 44% of cases.
However, the 37 °C PCSs reduced by twofold (P < 0.05) the HeLa cell viability whatever the incubation duration of planktonic cultures (Fig. 5a).
The level of cohesin binding to chromosomes in smc1-D1164E SMcellsD cells was reduced about twofold compared to SMC1 SMC1-AID.
However, the growth of all three E. coli strains in acetate is reduced almost twofold compared to growth in glycerol.
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