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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of transfect.
  • adjective From a foreign cell

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Examples

  • Additional features of the EYFP vector presented above are a human cytomegalovirus (CMV) promoter to drive gene expression in transfected human and other mammalian cell lines, and an f1 bacteriophage replication origin for single-stranded DNA production.

    Archive 2005-10-01 2005

  • But an anti-oncogene, transfected into a cell, cannot be expected to create an “anti-focus.”

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

  • DNA from these cells was sheared into fragments and transfected into the normal human cell line.

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

  • Plate after plate of transfected cells piled up in the laboratory.

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

  • But an anti-oncogene, transfected into a cell, cannot be expected to create an “anti-focus.”

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

  • But an anti-oncogene, transfected into a cell, cannot be expected to create an “anti-focus.”

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

  • DNA from these cells was sheared into fragments and transfected into the normal human cell line.

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

  • DNA from these cells was sheared into fragments and transfected into the normal human cell line.

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

  • Plate after plate of transfected cells piled up in the laboratory.

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

  • Plate after plate of transfected cells piled up in the laboratory.

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

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