Definition of "wnt" []

• Want (verb)

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• "The Pennsylvania team found that a particular gene important in wound healing, called wnt, appeared to play a role in the production of new hair follicles."
• "In the 1980s, our studies of retrovirus-induced breast cancer in mice led to the discovery of a class of genes, the wnt genes, which work in concert with several other genes that make components of what is called the wnt signaling pathway."
• "… an injectable liquid product made by culturing cells from newborns and collecting growth factors, so-called wnt proteins, and other molecules that the cells secrete."