Making Medicines. Not long ago, if you were diabetic, the insulin your doctor prescribed would have come from a pig. If you required human growth hormone, it would have come from human cadavers, a source that is costly, not to mention a little creepy. Now, these and other medicines can be made by specially-modified bacteria, called transgenic bacteria. These single-celled organisms have foreign genes along side their own DNA.
publication. n. 1. (Journalism & Publishing) the act or process of publishing a printed work. 2. (Journalism & Publishing) any printed work offered for sale or distribution. 3. the act or an instance of making information public. 4. (Law) the act of disseminating defamatory matter, esp by communicating it to a third person.
Freebase (0.00 / 0 votes) Rate this definition: Magazine. Magazines, periodicals, glossies, or serials are publications that are printed with ink on paper, and generally published on a regular schedule and containing a variety of content. They are generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscriptions, or all three. At its root the word magazine refers to a collection or storage location. In the case of written publication, it is a collection of written articles. Chambers 20th Century Dictionary (0.00 / 0 votes) Rate this definition: