In biochemistry, heat shock is the effect of subjecting a cell to a higher temperature than that of the ideal body temperature of the organism from which the cell line was derived.
Read more about Heat Shock: Heat Shock Response, Inducing Heat Shock
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But looked to near, have neither heat nor light.”
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Shuddering insidious shock of the theory-vendors
The little sardine men crammed in a monster toy
Who tilt their aggregate beast against our crumbling Troy.”
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