genetically modified
adjective
: having or containing DNA that has been altered artificially in order to express (see express sense 3) a desired trait or traits : being produced or altered by genetic modification
A 57-year-old man with nonischemic cardiomyopathy who … was not a candidate for standard therapeutics, including a traditional allograft, received a heart from a genetically modified pig … that had 10 individual gene edits.—
Bartley P. Griffith et al., The New England Journal of Medicine
—abbreviation GM
see also genetically modified organism
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