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Definitions
- Antibiotic resistance
- Bird flu
- Climate change & insect-borne disease
- Genomics
- Malaria
- Nanotechnology for health
- Tuberculosis
List of terms for Genomics
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Therapeutic cloning
The generation and manipulation of stem cells with the objective of deriving cells of a particular organ or tissue to treat a disease. [WHO: Genomics and World Health]
Transgenic animal/plant
A fertile animal or plant that carries an introduced gene(s) in its germ-line. [WHO: Genomics and World Health]
