- Industry: Library & information science
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The National Library of Medicine (NLM), on the campus of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, is the world's largest medical library. The Library collects materials and provides information and research services in all areas of biomedicine and health care.
Animal grown under sterile conditions in the period of postnatal development: such animals are usually obtained by Caesarean operation and kept in special sterile boxes in which there are no viable micro-organisms (sterile air, food and water are supplied).
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Animal grown under sterile conditions in the period of postnatal development: such animals are usually obtained by Caesarean operation and kept in special sterile boxes in which there are no viable micro-organisms (sterile air, food and water are supplied).
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Any difference in a character between individuals due to genetic differences such as may occur in dizygotic twins, or between matched pairs in a case cohort study.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Any difference in a character between individuals due to genetic differences such as may occur in dizygotic twins, or between matched pairs in a case cohort study.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Any intentionally added ingredient of a mixture which does not contribute to the desired biological effect: this definition does not include impurities and does not imply that the inert ingredient has no biological effects.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Any largely inert substance added to a drug to give suitable consistency or form to the drug.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
Any part of a molecule that acts as an antigenic determinant: a macromolecule can contain many different epitopes each capable of stimulating production of a different specific antibody.
Industry:Biology; Chemistry
