Sentences with phrase «act of serendipity»

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Illustrative of this serendipity is a discovery made in 2009 by LJI scientist Toshiaki Kawakami, M.D., PhD., who, while testing whether a particular enzyme might be acting to counter allergies (his area of expertise), engineered a mouse to lack that factor and found it, to his surprise, that it developed blood cancer.

When it comes to initial discovery, conventional ebook stores still act as though they're made of bricks and mortar — as though readers can just wander through the stacks in a particular genre and find a book through serendipity.

I took all the required courses, but discovered acting and the wonders of the arts, and the joys of serendipity, of finding out things you can't explain or understand because you were wandering the library stacks and found Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness.