"transfect" meaning in English

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      "form": "transfects",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "transfecting",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "transfected",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "transfected",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2000, Harvey I. Pass, Lung cancer: principles and practice, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, page 43:",
          "text": "physical means have been developed to transfect DNA into cells",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To introduce foreign material into eukaryotic cells."
      ],
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        [
          "eukaryotic",
          "eukaryotic"
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        [
          "cell",
          "cell"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "transfectable"
        },
        {
          "word": "transfectant"
        },
        {
          "word": "transfection"
        },
        {
          "word": "transfectoma"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "transfection"
      ]
    }
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    {
      "ipa": "/tɹænzˈfɛkt/"
    },
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  "word": "transfect"
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    {
      "form": "transfects",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "transfecting",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "transfected",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "transfected",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "transfectable"
    },
    {
      "word": "transfectant"
    },
    {
      "word": "transfection"
    },
    {
      "word": "transfectoma"
    }
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        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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        {
          "ref": "2000, Harvey I. Pass, Lung cancer: principles and practice, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, page 43:",
          "text": "physical means have been developed to transfect DNA into cells",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To introduce foreign material into eukaryotic cells."
      ],
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        [
          "eukaryotic",
          "eukaryotic"
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          "cell",
          "cell"
        ]
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        "transfection"
      ]
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