Scarlessly

adv

adv ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    Without leaving a scar not-comparable

    "A secondary recombination event was employed to expel the deletion construct with a customized commercial gBlock (IDT, San Jose, CA) comprised of the upstream/downstream sequences directly flanking the gene of interest, thereby scarlessly excising the gene of interest."

Example

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"A secondary recombination event was employed to expel the deletion construct with a customized commercial gBlock (IDT, San Jose, CA) comprised of the upstream/downstream sequences directly flanking the gene of interest, thereby scarlessly excising the gene of interest."

Etymology

From scarless + -ly.

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