Mutagenic

"Mutagenic" in a Sentence (4 examples)

Don't smell it. It might be mutagenic.

Knowing the reason for a tumor's genetic instability, mathematician Komarova says, might affect the development of cancer treatment strategies. She explains that some treatments are mutagenic, that is, they make cells mutate. Chemotherapy, she says, is very mutagenic, and small molecule inhibitors are not.

Would it help to say that we misunderestimated the effects of Frankenfood and mutagenic smog, to speculate that amid all our infornography and anticipointment, some crisitunity slumbered unnoticed in a roadside motel?

For the antimutagenicity evaluation, the same doses of CPN employed in the mutagenic evaluation were co-treated with their respective positive controls.

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