Definition of "transfecting" []

• Present participle of transfect. (verb)

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• "Furthermore, scientists have been routinely transfecting (i.e., inserting) foreign pieces of DNA into all sorts of cells to confer on those recipient cells the abilities to make proteins that they otherwise would not make and to thereby influence, sometimes decisively, their functional properties more broadly."
• "Colabelling is possible by transfecting cells with different plasmids each containing one fluorescent protein gene and one gene of interest (Figure 3)."
• "It does no one any good to have someone with a degree in physics looking at a patent for a method of transfecting genes into plants."