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Diethylstilbestrol
The earliest synthetic (man-made) form of the hormone estrogen. Diethylstilbestrol (DES) was once widely prescribed to prevent miscarriages and premature births. Its usage was standard practice in the 1950s and 1960s. Millions of women…
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Show more- Recombinant DNA technology A series of procedures used to join together (recombine) DNA segments. A recombinant DNA molecule is…
- Kidney transplant Replacement of a diseased, damaged, or missing kidney with a donor kidney. Also called a renal transplant…
- BMP2 Bone morphogenic protein 2
- Random number table A table of numbers generated in an unpredictable, haphazard sequence. Tables of random numbers are used to…
- Immunodeficiency Inability to mount a normal immune response. Immunodeficiency can be due to a genetic disease or acquired as…
- Reproductive cells The eggs and sperm are the reproductive cells. Each mature reproductive cell is haploid in that it has a…
- Christian Boehmer Anfinsen, Jr. See: Anfinsen, Christian Boehmer, Jr.
- Inheritance Not something that is contained in a will, but rather a gene, chromosome or genome that is transmitted from…
- Cervical Having to do with any kind of neck including the neck on which the head is perched and the neck of the…
- Echopraxia The involuntary imitation of the movements of another person. Echopraxia is a feature of schizophrenia…
- Topical chemotherapy Chemotherapy: Treatment with an anticancer drug in a lotion, ointment or cream that is applied to the skin.
- Macrophage A type of white blood that ingests (takes in) foreign material. Macrophages are key players in the immune…