Definition of "double-stranded" [double-stranded]

• Having two strands (adjective)

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• "The "Dra" bit refers to a telltale sign of viral infection—double-stranded RNA molecules—while the "co" bit concerns the mechanism by which a cell commits suicide if so infected."
• "I indeed isolated double-stranded RNA sequences, but they were of cellular origin and existed at the same level in non-infected cells!"
• "I started with the foot and mouth virus and then, in Kingsley Sanders 'laboratory at Carshalton near London, I was proud to identify for the first time an infectious double-stranded RNA from cells infected with the murine encephalomyocarditis virus, a small single-stranded RNA virus."