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gel electrophoresis

noun

Definition of gel electrophoresis

: electrophoresis in which molecules (such as proteins and nucleic acids) migrate through a gel and especially a polyacrylamide gel and separate into bands according to size

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 The outbreak prodded the CDC to develop a program that relied on a technique called pulsed-field gel electrophoresis in which investigators could look at a germ's DNA in clumps. — Mike Stobbe, chicagotribune.com, "Disease hunters using DNA to investigate E. coli outbreak linked to romaine lettuce," 30 Apr. 2018 Investigators used pulsed-field gel electrophoresis to find 11 illnesses with a similar genetic pattern, but whole genome sequencing definitively linked 10 and caused one to be tossed out as unrelated. — Mike Stobbe, chicagotribune.com, "Disease hunters using DNA to investigate E. coli outbreak linked to romaine lettuce," 30 Apr. 2018

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First Known Use of gel electrophoresis

1955, in the meaning defined above

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gel electrophoresis

noun

Medical Definition of gel electrophoresis

: electrophoresis in which molecules (as proteins and nucleic acids) migrate through a gel and especially a polyacrylamide gel and separate into bands according to size

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