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Dictionary » F » Foreign ForeignForeign 1. Outside; extraneous; separated; alien; as, a foreign country; a foreign government. Foreign worlds. 2. Not native or belonging to a certain country; born in or belonging to another country, nation, sovereignty, or locality; as, a foreign language; foreign fruits. Domestic and foreign writers. Hail, foreign wonder! Whom certain these rough shades did never breed. (Milton) 3. Remote; distant; strange; not belonging; not connected; not pertaining or pertient; not appropriate; not harmonious; not agreeable; not congenial; with to or from; as, foreign to the purpose; foreign to one's nature. This design is not foreign from some people's thoughts. (Swift) 4. Held at a distance; excluded; exiled. Kept him a foreign man still; which so grieved him, That he ran mad and died. (Shak) foreign attachment, a substance occurring in any part of the body where it does not belong, and usually introduced from without. Foreign office, that department of the government of Great Britain which has charge British interests in foreign countries. Synonym: Outlandish, alien, exotic, remote, distant, extraneous, extrinsic. Origin: oe. Forein, f. Forain, LL. Foraneus, fr. L. Foras, foris, out of doors, abroad, without; akin to fores doors, and E. Door. See Door, and cf. Foreclose, Forfeit, forest, Forum. Not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something; an economic theory alien to the spirit of capitalism; the mysticism so foreign to the french mind and temper; jealousy is foreign to her nature. ![]()
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Results from our forumUse of Bacteria... studied organism in the world). Therefore E. coli has been extensively used for many experiments in molecular biology including the expression of foreign proteins and other molecules. And this leads us directly to industrial processes at a large scale like the production of insulin. Furthermore, ...
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T cell differentiation... the thymus after their T cell receptor has been deemed appropriate (e.g. it does not recognize self molecules with high affinity, but recognizes foreign ones sufficiently). RTEs are naive T cells in a sense that they are yet to encounter their specific antigen in the periphery. Furthermore, they ...
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Re:... by for example displaying structures on their surfaces which are similar to those of their host, so the immune system does not perceive it as a foreign object. There are also bacteria which, unlike animals, can live without oxygen (anaerobic), some can alternate between many different respiratory ...
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Important unknown nanotech within humans... locations with human white blood cells embedded in its structure http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/outdoors/articles/jelly/ white blood cells attack foreign matter within the human body. There is evidence to suggest the bio nanotechnology aquires its energy from glycolysis,the same method as the ...
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How to practically carry out Bacterial Transformation... suitable host cell such as a suitable strain of e.coli like DH5 , a common strain available in all molecular biology laboratories, which can take foreign DNA easily. For this we have to treat the grown bacterial cultures at its log phase of growth, with CaCl2. Centrifuge the cells growing at the ...
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