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Gene amplification
Making multiple copies of a gene. Repeated copying of a gene. Gene amplification plays a role in cancer cells. A tumor cell amplifies, or copies, DNA segments as a result of cell signals and sometimes environmental events. Amplification…
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- Infection, middle ear Acute middle ear infection, medically called acute otitis media is inflammation of the middle ear. Acute…
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention >CDC facilities in the US in: > >Anchorage, Alaska >Atlanta >Cincinnati, Ohio >Fort Collins, Colorado…
- Child injury, mental Also known as emotional child abuse, this is the third most frequently reported form of child abuse (after…
- Disease, Alpers See: Alpers disease
- Zhong-Wei Chen See: Chen, Zhong Wei
- X-rays during pregnancy See: Prenatal radiation exposure
- Insufficiency, pulmonary See: Pulmonary insufficiency
- Polycentric Having two or more centers. Polycentric disease is usually referred to as multicentric disease. See also…
- Annexin A1 One of the annexins, a family of proteins that share the property of binding calcium and phospholipids. The…
- Genome, Saccharomyces cerevisiae The genome of the bacterium that causes cholera. This genome contains over 4 million bases in its DNA…
- Chromaesthesia See: Chromesthesia