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  • noun Plural form of plasmid.

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Examples

  • 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 2007

  • 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.

    NYT > Home Page By NICHOLAS WADE 2011

  • The three different Wnt expression plasmids were kindly provided by Dr.J. Kitajewski

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Jochen Schulze et al. 2010

  • 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.

    THE MEDICAL NEWS Editors 2010

  • 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.

    Latest News - Yahoo!7 News 2010

  • (D) DNA transfection in MC3T3-E1 cells using expression plasmids for Wnt1, Wnt2 or Wnt3, Dkk1 and/or Krm2 at the indicated combinations.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Jochen Schulze et al. 2010

  • 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.

    THE MEDICAL NEWS Editors 2010

  • 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).

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Donald Courter et al. 2010

  • 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.

    THE MEDICAL NEWS Editors 2010

  • Luciferase reporter gene, only when Wnt1 or Wnt3 expression plasmids are co-transfected, but that

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Jochen Schulze et al. 2010

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