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- noun Alternative spelling of
wild type .
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Examples
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As we've previously noted, only patients whose tumors contain wild-type, that is unmutated KRAS genes, should receive Vectibix therapy.
unknown title 2011
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GB: Back-breeding of humans the way that some livestock has been back-bred to early stock, or wild-type animals, could probably produce
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“Even for an inactivated rather than live virus approach, these features would allow a vaccine to be made from a safer starting material than the corresponding wild-type virus.”
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At least for the wild-type, there's one amino acid that controls really primary colour of the emission, and the next one to it controls, if you are going to be green, what is your absorbance spectrum.
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They hoped these would stimulate the immune system in the same way as “wild-type” polio, without causing disease, and that is what appears to have happened, they wrote.
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The progress of selection for or against a bithorax-like response to ether treatment in two wild-type populations.
It's more than genes, it's networks and systems - The Panda's Thumb 2010
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[RT] Of course, in the process we had to improve all of the colours, and the original wild-type GFP was very difficult to use, for many reasons.
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I cant look anywhere these days without finding a meme - Nature Network (a good one! mutated), Facebook (wild-type), FriendFeed, Google Reader (bannedtype) - I'll try to do them all but this one positively appeals so I will do it first (and maybe never get around to the others).
December 2008 Maxine 2008
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The idea is that the presence of two copies of the R577X variant predisposes subjects to endurance, whereas the “normal,” or wild-type, gene results in a muscle type better suited to sprint and power events.
The $1,000 Genome Kevin Davies 2010
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A method for identifying a mutant BRCA2 nucleotide sequence in a suspected mutant BRCA2 allele which comprises comparing the nucleotide sequence of the suspected mutant BRCA2 allele with the wild-type BRCA2 nucleotide sequence, wherein a difference between the suspected mutant and the wild-type sequences identifies a mutant BRCA2 nucleotide sequence.
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