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- adjective biology Failing to
replicate
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Examples
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The dirtiest secret in the industry is that, while antivirus tools detect replicating malicious code like worms, they do not identify malcode such as nonreplicating Trojans.
Netflash 2009
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The replicating strings could eat up the basic units faster than the nonreplicating strings, so there is competition between prelife and life itself.
SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011
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Are you paralyzed by the oncoming threat of ecophages and nonreplicating nanoweapons?
NYT > Technology 2010
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Today Trojans and other forms on nonreplicating malcode constitute 80\% or more of the threats businesses are likely to face.
Netflash 2009
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In vitro it inhibits both drug-sensitive and drug-resistant isolates, and it works to kill dormant, or nonreplicating, tubercle bacilli.
MedPageToday.com - medical news plus CME for physicians 2009
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The trial represents two firsts, says Fink: It is the first human trial of gene therapy for pain, and the first study to test a nonreplicating HSV-based vector to deliver a therapeutic gene to humans.
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