Deactivation may refer to;
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Protein denaturation, the process of disrupting the structure of proteins or nucleic acids
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Drug metabolism
Drug metabolism is the metabolic breakdown of drugs by living organisms, usually through specialized enzymatic systems. More generally, xenobiotic metabolism (from the Greek xenos "stranger" and biotic "related to living beings") is the set o ...
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Sterilization (microbiology)
Sterilization () refers to any process that removes, kills, or deactivates all forms of life (particularly microorganisms such as fungi, bacteria, spores, and unicellular eukaryotic organisms) and other biological agents (such as prions or virus ...
, the process of killing or deactivating all life and other biological agents, rendering them unable to cause disease, function, or replicate
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