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  • noun organic chemistry, especially in combination ethylene oxide, oxirane

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  • Poloxamine Made of multiple oxyethylene and oxypropylene segments, poloxamine is used in gene therapy as an alternative to artificial viruses for carrying DNA into cells.

    What's Inside: Bausch and Lomb ReNu 2009

  • Made of multiple oxyethylene and oxypropylene segments, poloxamine is used in gene therapy as an alternative to artificial viruses for carrying DNA into cells.

    Wired Top Stories 2009

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