- Industry: Agriculture
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Established in October 1945 with the objective of eliminating hunger and improving nutrition and standards of living by increasing agricultural productivity, FAO coordinates the efforts of governments and technical agencies in programs for developing agriculture, forestry, fisheries, and land and ...
Substance which lowers the surface tension of a solution, improving its cleaning properties (e.g., Tween-20TM, a surfactant and wetting agent).
Industry:Biotechnology
Substances inactivating the enzyme trypsin, which is needed for digestion of peptides.
Industry:Biotechnology
Symmetrically cleaved phospho-diester bonds that lie on both strands of duplex DNA but are not opposite one another.
Industry:Biotechnology
Synthesis of compounds by living cells, which is the essential feature of anabolism.
Industry:Biotechnology
Systematic recording of descriptors that are independent of environmental factors.
Industry:Biotechnology
T cells that carry T-cell receptors and kill cells displaying the recognized antigens.
Industry:Biotechnology
T cells that respond to an antigen displayed by a macrophage by stimulating B and T lymphocytes to develop into antibody-producing plasma cells and killer T cells, respectively.
Industry:Biotechnology
Tandem repeats of three nucleotides that are present in many genes. In several cases, these trinucleotide repeats have undergone expansions in copy number, and that has resulted in inherited diseases.
Industry:Biotechnology
Technique for vegetative propagation, in which new plants produce adventitious roots before being severed from the parent plant.
Industry:Biotechnology
