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humanize (medicine)


humanize


1. To render human or humane; to soften; to make gentle by overcoming cruel dispositions and rude habits; to refine or civilize. "Was it the business of Magic to humanize our natures with compassion?" (Addison)

2. To give a human character or expression to. "Humanised divinities."

3. <medicine> To convert into something human or belonging to man; as, to humanize vaccine lymph.

Origin: Cf. F. Humaniser.

Source: Websters Dictionary


marker gene (medicine)


marker gene
Gene that confers some readily detectable phenotype on cells carrying the gene, either in culture or in transgenic or chimeric organisms. Gene could be an enzymic reporter gene, a selectable marker conferring antibiotic resistance or a cell membrane protein with a characteristic epitope.