Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A polysaccharide obtained from agar that is the most widely used medium for gel electrophoresis procedures.
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- noun A
polymeric cross-linked polysaccharide extracted from theseaweed agar ; used to makegels that are used inelectrophoresis .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Researchers at the Rogosin Institute are taking tumor cells from mice, encapsulating them in beads made from a seaweed-derived sugar called agarose, and implanting them in the abdomen of cancer patients.
Novel Effort To Fight Cancer With Cancer Cells Ron Winslow 2011
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Researchers at the Rogosin Institute are taking tumor cells from mice, encapsulating them in beads made from a seaweed-derived sugar called agarose, and implanting them in the abdomen of cancer patients.
FOXNews.com 2011
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Sage Science's latest product, the pippinprep, is an automated instrument that extracts and processes DNA and related genetic materials from so-called agarose gels used in medical research labs.
Boston Business News - Local Boston News | Boston Business Journal 2010
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Estroff and graduate student Hanying Li grew samples of calcite in a hydrogel called agarose -- a common dessert additive -- that mimics the way calcite grows in living things.
R&D Mag - News 2009
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The beads initially contain about 150,000 mouse kidney cancers mixed with agarose and wrapped with a layer of agarose that creates a shell.
Novel Effort To Fight Cancer With Cancer Cells Ron Winslow 2011
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The latest development is "keiki gels" -- agarose gel electrophoresis using nothing but a drinking straw, a 9V battery and a pair of alligator clips.
Boing Boing 2009
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Crowdsourced science: HOWTO do agarose gel electrophoresis using nothing but a drinking straw, a 9V battery and a pair of alligator clips
Boing Boing 2009
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Some examples of this include statements like: "Microarrays cost much less than they used to" and "Instead of remelting your agarose or storing it in the water bath, you can pour all of it at once."
Captain Obvious to the rescue microbiologist xx 2008
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Some examples of this include statements like: "Microarrays cost much less than they used to" and "Instead of remelting your agarose or storing it in the water bath, you can pour all of it at once."
Archive 2008-10-01 microbiologist xx 2008
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I'm doing this here because my thoughtful, considerate labmates didn't actually have a plan or a schedule for packing, so even thought a few of us had experiments planned up until tomorrow, they started packing the agarose gel boxes, etc. right out from under us.
Archive 2005-07-01 2005
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