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Cancer that occurs randomly and is not inherited from parents. Caused by DNA changes in one cell that grows and divides, spreading throughout the body.
See also: hereditary cancer.
Industry:Biology
The use of statistical analysis, computer analysis, or model organisms to predict outcomes of research..
Industry:Biology
Group of cloned (copied) pieces of DNA representing overlapping regions of a particular chromosome..
Industry:Biology
Undifferentiated, primitive cells in the bone marrow that have the ability both to multiply and to differentiate into specific blood cells..
Industry:Biology
The study of the structure, function, and makeup of biologically important molecules..
Industry:Biology
A map depicting the relative order of a linked library of overlapping clones representing a complete chromosomal segment..
Industry:Biology
The effort to determine the 3D structures of large numbers of proteins using both experimental techniques and computer simulation.
Industry:Biology
The development of transgenic animals to produce human proteins for medical use..
Industry:Biology
Artificially constructed cloning vector containing the cos gene of phage lambda. Cosmids can be packaged in lambda phage particles for infection into E. coli; this permits cloning of larger DNA fragments (up to 45kb) than can be introduced into bacterial hosts in plasmid vectors..
Industry:Biology
In genetics, a type of mutation due to replacement of one nucleotide in a DNA sequence by another nucleotide or replacement of one amino acid in a protein by another amino acid.
See also: mutation.
Industry:Biology
