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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).


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