artificial gene
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of artificial gene
First recorded in 1970–75
Example Sentences
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Mr. Woolfson also lingers admiringly on Har Gobind Khorana, a village clerk’s son in British India who went on to synthesize the first fully artificial gene in 1972.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
At an American Chemical Society meeting in San Francisco, they announced that using only off-the-shelf chemicals, they had made an artificial gene that does all the work of its natural counterpart.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Kan team first constructed an artificial gene that could replace the instructions of a faulty gene subunit that was causing beta thalassemia.
From Time Magazine Archive
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