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  gene splicing

  noun

  a process using recombinant DNA technology to join, by attachment or insertion, a DNA segment from one source to a DNA segment from another source.
• gene-splicing
  gene-splicing

  The process in which fragments of DNA from one or more different organisms are combined to form recombinant DNA.

gene splicing

American  

[jeen splahy-sing] / ˈdʒin ˌsplaɪ sɪŋ /

noun

Genetics.

1. a process using recombinant DNA technology to join, by attachment or insertion, a DNA segment from one source to a DNA segment from another source.

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gene-splicing Scientific  

1. The process in which fragments of DNA from one or more different organisms are combined to form recombinant DNA.

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gene splicing Cultural  

1. A term used to refer to the process by which the DNA of an organism is cut and a gene, perhaps from another organism, is inserted. (See genetic engineering and recombinant DNA.) Gene splicing is often used in industry to allow single-celled organisms to produce useful products, such as human insulin. It is also used in the production of genetically modified organisms.

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Etymology

Origin of gene splicing

First recorded in 1975–80

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Some are using genetic testing and exploring gene splicing to produce children with desired traits.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 23, 2025

Prior research in other disorders has shown that issues related to gene splicing may be to blame.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 28, 2023

Exons can be reconnected in different sequences, a phenomenon referred to as alternative gene splicing, which allows a single eukaryotic gene to code for different proteins.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022

The world already has a legal foundation to prevent gene splicing for warfare: the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention.

From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2021

The first, and wildest, is that scientists at WIV were engaged in experiments with bat coronavirus, involving so-called gene splicing, and the virus then escaped and infected humans.

From The Guardian ● May 1, 2020

In the 1970s, when people became concerned that gene-splicing techniques could lead to the production of super viruses, Baltimore organized a conference at Asilomar near Monterey to design a self-regulating system to monitor those experiments.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2025

A recurring joke in research circles refers to the moment of the gene-splicing discovery.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 18, 2023

For instance, the top breakthrough on the study’s list of examples is a gene-splicing advance that’s poorly known to popular science.

From New York Times ● Jan. 17, 2023

Meanwhile, on an improbable billion-dollar secret space station, a gene-splicing experiment goes wrong for the hilariously unethical corporation Energyne, and a crazed, car-sized rat rips its way out of the company’s space-lab.

From The Verge ● Apr. 11, 2018

They have Kathy Niakan, a biologist who is approved to work with the gene-splicing tool CRISPR, while we have the freakazoid supergoats that Chinese scientists created with CRISPR.

From Time ● Nov. 29, 2