Meanings
verbelectrophorese (third-person singular simple present electrophoreses, present participle electrophoresing, simple past and past participle electrophoresed)
present singular third person electrophoreses · participle present electrophoresing · participle past electrophoresed · past electrophoresed
- biochemistryTo carry out electrophoresis on something.
The approach taken is to electrophorese the RNA sample on an agarose gel under denaturing conditions.
1995, Kwang-Soo Kim et al., “Analysis of gene expression by blotting techniques”, in Gene Probes 2, →ISBN, page 156
Origin
Back-formation from electrophoresis.
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