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antigene

n. (context genetics English) An oligonucleotide that attaches to a specific gene and suppresses its action.

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If we had time, we could work on cracking the genetic code, then developing an antigene to combat this.

While they were in Attica the Athenians sent off the hundred ships which they had been preparing round Peloponnese, with a thousand heavy infantry and four hundred archers on board, under the command of Carcinus, son of Xenotimus, Proteas, son of Epicles, and Socrates, son of Antigenes.