turn off

STUFF LIKE THAT might be why so many people turned off their TVs as soon as you came on screen.

And then mentally, just doing things that can kind of like I can turn off my brain for a second and just focus on something else.

Like, scientists in China recently used CRISPR to make a subgenic modification in wheat — they turned off three genes that repress the wheat’s immune response to a nasty fungal infection.