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The process of providing the private sector access to technological advances developed by scientists in the US Federal Government.
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One of the four bases in DNA that make up the letters ATGC, thymine is the "T". The others are adenine, guanine, and cytosine. Thymine always pairs with adenine.
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An experimentally produced organism in which DNA has been artificially introduced and incorporated into the organism's germ line, usually by injecting the foreign DNA into the nucleus of a fertilized embryo.
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Breakage and removal of a large segment of DNA from one chromosome, followed by the segment's attachment to a different chromosome.
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Possessing three copies of a particular chromosome instead of the normal two copies.
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A protective gene that normally limits the growth of tumors. When a tumor supressor is mutated, it may fail to keep a cancer from growing. BRCA1 and p53 are well-known tumor suppressor genes.
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