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gene silencing
noun[ U ]
biology specializeduk /ˈdʒiːn ˌsaɪ.ləns.ɪŋ/ us /ˈdʒiːn ˌsaɪ.ləns.ɪŋ/
a process in which a particular gene, especially one that causes disease, is prevented from affecting a cell: 基因静默
Gene silencing is a procedure that selectively disables individual genes. 基因静默指有选择地禁用个体基因的做法。
Using gene silencing, scientists have shut down the genes in soybeans that make the protein thought to cause most soybean allergies in humans.利用基因静默，科学家已经关闭了大豆的一些基因，这些基因产生的蛋白质被认为是人类大豆过敏的主要原因。
Recently scientists found that gene silencing works in many animals, including worms and mouse embryos.
It looks like gene silencing is a very old mechanism and is in all living things.
Until then, attempts at gene silencing killed human cells.
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