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transfection
(trans-fek´shәn)
originally, the artificial infection of bacterial cells by uptake of viral nucleic acid, resulting in the production of mature
virus particles. Now, it includes any means of artificial introduction of foreign DNA into cultured eukaryotic cells; stable
integration of the DNA into the recipient genome may be called stable transfection.

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