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oncogenes

n. (plural of oncogene English)

Usage examples of "oncogenes".

Not after he edited out the oncogenes and selected for longevity, good eyesight, good teeth, and the rest of it.

The immunity-suppressing drugs and the others that resuppressed triggered oncogenes made him sicker than the radiation had.

The groundwork must have been laid early on, when they discovered how to suppress human oncogenes — cancer genes.

Because we’ve also got an added plasmid to keep oncogenes from ever expressing themselves.

People are worried that inserted genes might cause proto-onco genes to become oncogenes, turning the involved cell into a cancer.