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- noun Plural form of
plasmid .
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They also forget that you as a player can set challenges (like not dying or never using certain plasmids) to make it more difficult.
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Very funny review of Bioshock
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The plague bacterium's genome consists of a single chromosome, some 4.6 million DNA units in length, and three small rings of DNA called plasmids.
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The three different Wnt expression plasmids were kindly provided by Dr.J. Kitajewski
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DNA circles called plasmids, the minicircles contain no bacterial DNA, meaning that the cells containing the minicircles are less likely than plasmids to be perceived as foreign by the body.
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Crucially, the NDM-1 gene was found on DNA structures, called plasmids, that can be easily copied and transferred between bacteria, giving the bug "an alarming potential tospread and diversify," the authors said.
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(D) DNA transfection in MC3T3-E1 cells using expression plasmids for Wnt1, Wnt2 or Wnt3, Dkk1 and/or Krm2 at the indicated combinations.
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DNA circles called plasmids, the minicircles contain no bacterial DNA, meaning that the cells containing the minicircles are less likely than plasmids to be perceived as foreign by the body.
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Two cell lines, which have either undetectable (MiaPaCa-2) or low basal OPN expression (HT1080), were transfected with mammalian expression plasmids containing OPN-A, OPN-B, OPN-A with mutated RGD sequence (OPN-A-RAA) or OPN-B with deleted RGD sequence (OPN-B-NoRGD).
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DNA circles called plasmids, the minicircles contain no bacterial DNA, meaning that the cells containing the minicircles are less likely than plasmids to be perceived as foreign by the body.
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Luciferase reporter gene, only when Wnt1 or Wnt3 expression plasmids are co-transfected, but that
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