Gene-transfer
noun
1.
Biotechnology. the insertion of copies of a gene into living cells in order to induce synthesis of the gene’s product: the desired gene may be microinjected directly into the cell or it may be inserted into the core of a virus by gene splicing and the virus allowed to infect the cell for replication of the gene in the cell’s DNA.
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