zymo-

American  

especially before a vowel, zym-.

1. a combining form meaning “ferment,” “leaven,” used in the formation of compound words.

   zymology.

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zymo- British  

combining form

1. indicating fermentation

   zymology

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Etymology

Origin of zymo-

Combining form representing Greek zȳ́mē leaven

Example Sentences

His team has even sent pleas over Twitter to the Stanford community and regional biotech companies calling for donations of reagent assemblies, such as kits from Zymo and Qiagen.

From Science Magazine

Another company — Zymo Research of Irvine, Calif. — has also developed an at-home kit that it hopes to get into the hands of first-responders and companies so that they can test employees.

From Washington Post

Zymo acts as a middleman, passing the sample to Pangea Laboratory in Costa Mesa, Calif., said Marc Van Eden, vice president of business development at Zymo Research.

From Washington Post

The test, offered by Zymo Research in Irvine, uses chemical modifications to DNA that accrue over a lifetime, called an ‘epigenetic clock’, to determine a person’s age.

From Nature

In the Hildesheim case, Zymo, which bought an exclusive licence to Horvath’s test in 2016, compared the refugee’s sample with those of five others who had similar ethnic backgrounds and whose ages were known.

From Nature