anneal

The foreign DNA and vector are allowed to anneal.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022

The tone of the letter seems, to this reader, overly filled with shame, but it works to anneal the injury.

From New York Times ● Nov. 12, 2021

But in the alkaline waters of these springs, the carbonate in the water will anneal to the shell of a snail, causing snail shells to grow increasingly heavy and unwieldy.

From Scientific American ● Dec. 23, 2017

Pronk, S. & Frenkel, D. Can stacking faults in hard-sphere crystals anneal out spontaneously?

From Nature ● Nov. 7, 2017

Perhaps Rekh would now let him make leaves every day, perhaps allow him to anneal wire, spread solder just so on the boxes, and learn and become skillful.

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw

The process of PCR anneals DNA molecules to complementary DNA strands, which maintains the same amount of DNA.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022

The baking not only anneals the wire, but reduces the shellac to a hard and highly insulating mass.

From On Laboratory Arts by Threlfall, Richard

One who, or that which, blanches or whitens; esp., one who anneals and cleanses money; also, a chemical preparation for this purpose.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah

They were also annealed at different temperatures and treated with different organic salt additives.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2023

Gonzalez-Torres and Laycock had seen and loved an earlier work by Horn — a thin, crumpled sheet of annealed gold.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 28, 2022

Next, the forward and reverse oligonucleotides were annealed and cloned into the pLKO.1 lentiviral vector, which was predigested with EcoRI and AgeI.

From Nature ● Oct. 10, 2017

Many of the more compelling editorial voices were annealed by their time in the alternative weekly world.

From New York Times ● Aug. 20, 2012

Riddick hoped that the conflict would produce an annealed group capable of directing the charrette once it got started.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

D-Wave briefly explored gate-based models after its founding in 1999 before shifting its focus to quantum annealing.

From Barron's ● Jun. 1, 2026

Veeco sells technologies for ion-beam deposition and laser annealing, which are essential in manufacturing semiconductors and packaging advanced chips.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 28, 2026

D-Wave has pioneered quantum annealing, tailored to optimization tasks.

From Barron's ● Feb. 27, 2026

Barron’s previously reported that the deal appeared to be a way for D-Wave to deepen its exposure to gate-based quantum computing, an architecture with broader applications than D-Wave’s signature annealing quantum systems.

From Barron's ● Jan. 14, 2026

He was only twelve then, but he could have been twenty-two: his quick-fire intelligence was already being cooled by gravity, the brittle self-assuredness of adolescence already annealing into the self-confidence of adulthood.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee