molecular knife

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molecular knife

A synthetic enzyme capable of cutting out and destroying specific genes such as those in a virus that control its replication or the production of a protein.

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

molec′ular knife′

a segment of genetic material that inhibits the reproduction of the AIDS virus by breaking up specific areas of the virus's genes.

[1990–95, Amer.]

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