0 a process in which a particular gene, especially one that causes disease, is prevented from affecting a cell: --
Using gene silencing, scientists have shut down the genes in soybeans that make the protein thought to cause most soybean allergies in humans.
Gene silencing is a procedure that selectively disables individual genes.
Until then, attempts at gene silencing killed human cells.
It looks like gene silencing is a very old mechanism and is in all living things.
Recently scientists found that gene silencing works in many animals, including worms and mouse embryos.
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May 10, 2021
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gene silencing
