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Medicine / Biology: AntibioticAn antibiotic is a type of antimicrobial substance which is active against bacteria.3 min / Deep
Medicine / Biology: CRISPRCRISPR (; acronym for clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats) is a family of DNA sequences found in the genomes of prokaryotic organisms such as bacteria and archaea.3 min / Deep
Medicine / Biology: DNADeoxyribonucleic acid (; DNA) is a polymer composed of two polynucleotide chains that coil around each other to form a double helix.3 min / Deep
Medicine / Biology: HeLaHeLa () is an immortalized cell line used in scientific research.3 min / Deep
Human microbiomeThe human microbiome is the aggregate of all microbiota that reside on or within human tissues and biofluids along with the corresponding anatomical sites in which they reside, including the gastrointestinal tract, skin, mammary glands, seminal fluid, uterus, ovarian follicles, lung, saliva, oral mucosa, ocular surface, and the biliary tract.3 min / Deep
Immune systemThe immune system is a network of biological systems that protects an organism from diseases.3 min / Deep
Transplantation (medicine)Transplantation is a medical procedure in which an organ, tissue, or cells are removed from one organism and placed in a recipient organism, often to replace a damaged or missing function.3 min / Deep
Medicine / Biology: PrionA prion ( ) is a misfolded protein that induces folding problems in normal variants of the same protein, leading to cellular death.3 min / Deep
Medicine / Biology: VaccineA vaccine is a biological preparation that provides active acquired immunity to a particular infectious or malignant disease.3 min / Deep
Medicine / Biology: VirusA virus is a submicroscopic infectious agent that replicates only inside the living cells of an organism.3 min / Deep