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The following Scientific Terms are defined as follows:
Immune Complex
A complex of antibody molecules produced in response to infection or in autoimmune disease. Such complexes can invoke powerful inflammatory responses esepcially in autoimmune diseases in blood vessels, organs and joints and can lead to the destruction of whole cells, tissues and organs.
Immune Response
The natural response to a foreign substance (eg. virus, bacteria). Responses involve many of the white blood cells, including T and B lymphocytes, macrophages, neutrophils, eosinophils and platelets.
Informatics
The study of the application of computer and statistical techniques to the management of information. In genome projects, informatics includes the development of methods to search databases quickly, to analyze DNA sequence information, and to predict protein sequence and structure from DNA sequence data.
In situ hybridization
Use of a DNA or RNA probe to detect the presence of the complementary DNA sequence in cloned bacterial or cultured eukaryotic cells.
Interphase
The period in the cell cycle when DNA is replicated in the nucleus; followed by mitosis.
Intron
The DNA base sequence interrupting the protein coding sequence of a gene; this sequence is transcribed into RNA but is cut out of the message before it is translated into protein.
in silico
Biological discovery using a computer.
In vitro
Outside a living organism.
in vivo
Within a living organism.