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agarose

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[ah-guh-rohs, -rohz] / ˈɑ gəˌroʊs, -ˌroʊz /

noun

Chemistry.
  1. a substance obtained from agar and used for chromatographic separations.


Etymology

Origin of agarose

First recorded in 1965–70; agar + -ose 2

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It may not be enough to simply mix chitosan and agarose together.

From Science Daily Dec. 11, 2023

Combining chitosan, a biopolymer that makes crab shells hard, with agarose, a biopolymer extracted from seaweed that is used to make gels, creates unique biopolymer composite films with enhanced strength.

From Science Daily Dec. 11, 2023

Usually the gel is made of a chemical called agarose.

From Textbooks Jun. 9, 2022

In brief, nuclei were isolated from leaves of one-month-old plants, and embedded in agarose plugs.

From Nature May 8, 2018

Worms were anaesthetized on an agarose pad with a 5-l droplet of 0.625mM levamisole hydrochloride in water for 20s before a coverslip was placed on top, and the worms were imaged immediately.

From Nature Apr. 4, 2014

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