transfect
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transfect (third-person singular simple present transfects, present participle transfecting, simple past and past participle transfected)
- To introduce foreign material into eukaryotic cells.
- 2000, Harvey I. Pass, Lung cancer: principles and practice, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, page 43:
- physical means have been developed to transfect DNA into cells