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18) HazMat, noun: hazardous materials.
19) jello, noun: culture and transport medium.
20) nutriceutical, noun: a foodstuff modified with various synthetic compounds meant to enhance mental or physical performance.
21) glorp, noun: an antibiological sterilizing agent used by swabs.
22) infodump, noun: large undigested portion of factoids.
23) Immunosance, noun: the Immunological Renaissance, the Genetic Age.
24) bioneer, noun: a bioengineering pioneer.
25) femto-injector, noun: a delivery unit capable of perfusing substances through various membranes without making a macroscopic entry wound.
26) buckybomb, noun: an explosive in a carbon buckminsterfullerene shell.
27) pliofilm, noun: all-purpose millipore wrap.
28) prestogurt, noun: instant yogurt modified to be a nutriceutical.
29) swab, noun: governmental and private agents of bioregulation; the cops; antagonists to every scab.
30) lookyloo, noun: a gaping bystander at a public spectacle, usually the cause of secondary accidents.
31) crittercam, noun: small audio-video transmitter mounted on animals.
32) Bose-Einstein condensate, noun: ultra-frigid state of matter.
33) extropian, noun, adjective: one who subscribes to a set of radical, wild-eyed optimistic prophecies regarding mankind's glorious high-tech future.
34) gel-drive, noun: organic data-storage unit.
35) gattaca, noun: DNA; any substrate that holds genetic information.
36) gloop, noun: a foodstuff.
37) squip, noun: a foodstuff.
38) billjoy, noun: a doomsayer; derived from Bill Joy, a fretful member of the twentieth-century digerati.
39) NGO, noun: non-governmental organization.
40) WTO, noun: World Trade Organization.
41) candybytes, noun: an educational nutriceutical.
42) Panspecific Mycoblastula, noun: a MacGuffin.
43) lysis, noun: cell destruction.
44) bio-zep, noun: a pseudo-living, lighter-than-air zeppelin.
45) vortal, noun, verb: virtual portal.
46) supercavitation, noun: process of underwater travel employing leading air pockets.
47) evoluture, noun: an artificially evolved creature.
48) somatype, noun: the visible expression of gattaca.
49) thallophytic, adjective: mushroom-like.
50) exopthalmic, adjective: pop-eyed.
51) 4-H, noun: an amateurs' club, primarily for children, that focuses on homeostasis (bodily maintenance through negative feedback circuits), haplotypes (gamete amounts of DNA), histogenesis (cell differentiation from general to specific), and hypertrophy (gigantism).