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单词 suicide gene
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suicide gene
suicide gene n. Genetics a gene which causes the death by apoptosis of a cell expressing it.Suicide genes are frequently used in cancer treatments to induce the death of cancerous cells, especially by activating a prodrug, while leaving healthy cells unharmed.
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1960 N. G. Anderson in Biol. Aging: Symp. Amer. Inst. Biol. Sci. 1957 105 Suicide genes. Presence of genes leading to destruction of nonreproductive individuals.
1978 BioScience 28 498/2 The existence of these relationships is sufficient reason for the rejection of the kinds of theories that treat aging as an isolated process that can vary arbitrarily, independent of other vital processes. Speculations about a ‘suicide gene’ as the basis of aging are an example.
1999 Daily Mail (Electronic ed.) 30 June The treatment [for breast cancer] involves injecting a ‘suicide gene’ directly into tumours and results in the cancer cells effectively self-destructing.
2016 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) A. 374 8 Suicide genes are present in all cells and the signalling molecules that switch them on and off are of countless different types.
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