See Also: Oligonucleotides(medicine)
oligonucleotides, antisense(medicine)

chifforobe (iou) and Oligonucleotides (medicine)


chifforobe (iou)



chifforobe noun. US. E20.
[from CHIFFO(NIER + WARD)ROBE.]
A piece of furniture with drawers in the lower part and hanging space in the upper part.

Oligonucleotides (medicine)


oligonucleotides
Polymers made up of a few (2-20) nucleotides. In molecular genetics, they refer to a short sequence synthesised to match a region where a mutation is known to occur, and then used as a probe (oligonucleotide probes).