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to inactivate
verb
To make inactive.
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These resistant bacteria learn to inactivate antibiotics or to continue to grow despite them.
The safest procedure to inactivate E. coli on leafy vegetables is to cook the food.
Alnylam's drug is designed to inactivate the TTR gene.
But John Maraganore, chief executive of Alnylam, said that while his company aims to shut off specific genes, Regulus might be able to inactivate entire networks of genes.
Formaldehyde is used in vaccine production to inactivate toxins from bacteria and viruses.
The blanch step is intended to inactivate enzyme systems responsible for off-flavours, browning, and softening.
It is very useful to inactivate pathogens, especially diarrhea.
Hydrazine as a liquid is known to inactivate bacterial spores.
Therefore, development of technologies to inactivate viruses is highly desired.
Rice bran was heated at 100 °C for 15 min in order to inactivate endogenous lipases.
This indicates that a variety of negative modulators of IR cooperate to inactivate IR.
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