Meaning of biofacture | Babel Free

Definitions

To produce (something) using biological methods.

transitive

Examples

“What she had done instead was identify⟳ the short string of amino acids, peptides, that folded up to form⟳ the actual antigen of the viral protein, map out the amino acid sequence and then biofacture a combination of different peptides, matching different regions of the viral protein, in the hope⟳ that one or more of the synthetic peptides would fold⟳ up to mimic an antigenic site present⟳ on the viral protein.”

“However, the use⟳ of restriction enzymes to isolate genetic material was only the first step toward the “biofacturing” of genes. […] [Stanley Norman] Cohen, [Annie C. Y.] Chang, and their gene-splicing team were intent on harnessing the multiplicative process⟳ of e. coli to biofacture identical copies of the toad genes that had been inserted into the bacterium.”

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