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Dictionary » S » Silence Silencesilence 1. To compel to silence; to cause to be still; to still; to hush. Silence that dreadful bell; it frights the isle. (Shak) 2. To put to rest; to quiet. This would silence all further opposition. (Clarendon) These would have silenced their scruples. (Rogers) 3. To restrain from the exercise of any function, privilege of instruction, or the like, especially from the act of preaching; as, to silence a minister of the gospel. The rev. Thomas hooker of Chelmsford, in Essex, was silenced for nonconformity. (B. Trumbull) 4. To cause to cease firing, as by a vigorous cannonade; as, to silence the batteries of an enemy. Origin: Silenced; Silencing.
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Results from our forumCreating Cell Lines... or are there too many receptors for that? My other two ideas would be that you would somehow permanently bind something to a receptor or somehow silence the receptor in the genome. If you have a protocol on how it's done I would really appreciate that. Thanks!
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rna interference... RNA must come from a virus - that is one of the reasons RNAi mechanisms exist. Cells do produce a type of RNA whose specific function is to silence genes. It is called microRNA, and what it does it form a loop back onto itself so that the Dicer enzyme can cut it up and then the genes can ...
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Blood-Borne Viruses... I thought synthesized short interfering RNA bound to a molecule that would transport it to the nucleus could target the viral genes in the DNA to silence the genes and prevent them from being expressed. I assume if you are pretreated with siRNA specific for the viral genes then the virus would ...
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Re: Bible vs Darwin... To ask or impart new things to a learned person in relation to his/her doctrine will always be a big thing, however. Some may just rather choose silence and stop opening conversations or queries just to prevent untoward responses, not unless of course a broad mind is always willing to hear. Now ...
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Fiber Disease Thread... calling from freedom of speech, consider that it is not denied to you. You can go anywhere on the internet, and I will not chase you and try to silence you. But not on this board. This is the same as in many countries warranting freedom of speech. I cannot tell you not to say something, but ...
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