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Advocating the building or use of a particular type of power plant; Also: Advocating the building, stockpiling, or use of a certain type of weapon.

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  • One of the methods, known as pronuclear transfer and being developed by scientists at Britain's Newcastle University, swaps DNA between two fertilized human eggs.
  • A lot of Americans are not wildly pronuclear and thought the U.S. may have overreacted in past years in its very heavy-handed treatment of New Zealand.
  • Efforts to genetically modify large animals have been hindered by the fact that the two methods currently used to effect it, somatic cell nuclear transfer or pronuclear...
  • BAC constructs expressing PD-related genes will be used to generate founder lines by pronuclear injection by Core Transgenic Services.
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