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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Industry: Agriculture
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Established in October 1945 with the objective of eliminating hunger and improving nutrition and standards of living by increasing agricultural productivity, FAO coordinates the efforts of governments and technical agencies in programs for developing agriculture, forestry, fisheries, and land and ...
An animal resulting from an embryonic stem cell in which a normal functional gene has been replaced by a non-functional form of the gene. This technique is used extensively in mice - much can be learned about the function of a gene by studying the phenotype of animals that lack the peptide product of that gene.
Industry:Biotechnology
An antibiotic of the aminoglycoside family that poisons translation by binding to the ribosomes.
Industry:Biotechnology
An antibiotic that interferes with protein synthesis in prokaryotes.
Industry:Biotechnology
An antibiotic that interferes with protein synthesis.
Industry:Biotechnology
An antibiotic that shares the basic chemical structure of cephalosporin.
Industry:Biotechnology
An antibody selected for its ability to catalyse a chemical reaction by binding to and stabilizing the transition-state intermediate.
Industry:Biotechnology
An antibody selected for its ability to catalyse a chemical reaction by binding to and stabilizing the transition-state intermediate.
Industry:Biotechnology
An antigen that provokes an immune response.
Industry:Biotechnology
An antigen-binding protein that is located on the surfaces of killer T cells and mediates the cellular immune response of mammals. The genes that encode T cell antigens are assembled from gene segments by somatic recombination processes that occur during T lymphocyte differentiation.
Industry:Biotechnology
An apical organelle in the head of a spermatozoon, q.v.
Industry:Biotechnology