How to Use transgenic in a Sentence

transgenic

adjective

• The transgenic source of the virus is eventually traced back to a lab in China.
  — Jane Metcalfe, Wired, 5 July 2020
• But his work has a key difference from Cushman’s: none of his projects are transgenic.
  — Melina Walling, The Arizona Republic, 9 Nov. 2021
• Telling is among a small group of researchers around the country who have created what are called transgenic mice.
  — Mark Johnson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 July 2017
• The issue of transgenic soy is not on the minds of Nuevo Durango’s farmers.
  — Nina Strochlic, National Geographic, 12 Apr. 2019
• The vault doesn’t contain GMOs, though Fowler’s stance on this is not strictly in opposition to transgenic breeding.
  — Adrian Higgins, idahostatesman, 28 Feb. 2018
• Dantas believes that his transgenic E. coli might just do the job, though not the strain that his lab engineered, which grows on penicillin very slowly and prefers eating sugars.
  — Jonathon Keats, Discover Magazine, 8 Nov. 2018
• In the three decades since van Montagu’s breakthrough, transgenic crops have been adopted faster than any technology in the history of agriculture.
  — Andrew Curry, Discover Magazine, 13 Mar. 2013
• Nature is an afterthought in our contemplation of what comes next, a transgenic potted plant behind a window that does not open.
  — Rob Dunn, Wired, 6 Jan. 2022
• The second, more controversial strategy is to slip a resistance gene into the tree’s DNA, to produce a transgenic chestnut.
  — Stephanie Pain, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Sep. 2020
• But scientists have created transgenic species for decades.
  — Nathaniel Rich, WSJ, 30 Apr. 2021
• There was an excellent article written in 2013 about the early history of this pandemic and the concern that growers would be denied any transgenic tools with which to fight HLB.
  — Steven Savage, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2022
• But transgenic crops like Cushman’s succulent soybeans were not included in those updates.
  — Melina Walling, The Arizona Republic, 9 Nov. 2021
• Then there are dozens of tests to determine a transgenic crop’s impact on native plants, pollinators and bird life — not to mention the quality control for human consumption.
  — Melina Walling, The Arizona Republic, 9 Nov. 2021
• But controls on transgenic GMOs could someday be loosened as well; Defra has requested public comments on whether reform is needed.
  — Erik Stokstad, Science | AAAS, 26 May 2021
• But most of the experiments leading to this conclusion were done with transgenic mice with a severely depleted T cell repertoire and thus lacked a normal immune response.
  — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 12 July 2022
• His work has contributed to the advancement of transgenic mosquito-killing fungi for malaria prevention.
  — Esther Ngumbi, Wired, 3 Jan. 2020
• The creatures included Wu's latest creation: a transgenic dinosaur dubbed Indominus Rex.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 10 Feb. 2022
• But even scientists who see the potential of genetic engineering are uneasy about releasing the transgenic insects because of how hard such trials are to control.
  — Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2022
• What are popularly referred to as GMOs are properly called transgenic organisms.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 24 Nov. 2020
• One workaround would be to use the transgenic bacteria as factories for making enzymes that break down antibiotics, and then releasing those enzymes into the environment.
  — Jonathon Keats, Discover Magazine, 8 Nov. 2018
• The Georgia Research Alliance’s support also included $1 million to develop a colony of transgenic rhesus monkeys in China.
  — Daniel Golden, ProPublica, 20 Jan. 2022
• The Chinese institute is building a new facility in Shanghai’s Songjiang district, which will house as many as 6000 nonhuman primates, including many transgenic monkeys.
  — Gretchen Vogel, Science | AAAS, 27 Jan. 2020
• Similar transgenic gain-of-function approaches will help scientists engineer plants for drought or pest resistance, and ultimately feed more people in a warming world.
  — Victor Dirita, STAT, 25 Dec. 2021
• By crossing these transgenic mice with mice engineered to express alterations in Alzheimer’s risk genes, researchers can determine how a gene variant influences different aspects of Alzheimer’s-like pathology.
  — Jason Ulrich, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2021
• Realizing that herbicide tolerance is a key trait for farmers wanting to grow Camelina in a continuous no-till system, Yield10 has a transgenic version with that trait working its way through the regulatory process.
  — Steven Savage, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2022
• In their first experiments, the researchers used transgenic animals that only made the protein in acetophenone-sensitive olfactory nerves.
  — Robert Martone, Scientific American, 27 Aug. 2019
• But more complicated traits powered by many genes, such as drought tolerance, will be much more difficult to engineer without transgenic modifications, Napier warns.
  — Erik Stokstad, Science | AAAS, 26 May 2021
• Dunn’s lucid discussion offers insight for surviving climate variability: the law of corridors supports creating habitat bridges to help species flee to new homes; the law of diversity favors growing refuge plants alongside transgenic crops.
  — Amy Brady, Scientific American, 18 Oct. 2021
• For example, most transgenic mouse models focus on amyloid protein buildup while neglecting other crucial aspects of the disease, such as overall neurodegeneration.
  — Agnès Lacreuse, The Conversation, 31 Aug. 2022
• Amdam would love to see transgenic technology developed for free-flying honey bees, allowing real-world experiments on aging.
  — Yao-Hua Law, Science | AAAS, 25 Mar. 2021

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024