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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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Instead, Velev and his collaborators took a different approach, reinforcing the agarose films with fibrillated colloidal scale material -- called soft dendritic colloids -- made from chitosan.

From Science Daily Dec. 11, 2023

The strong chitosan micro- and nanoscale fibrils are hierarchically branched to provide strength and stability to the agarose film where they are embedded.

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

Subsequently, approximately 300-bp DNA fragments were selected again on 2% agarose gel, and amplified by PCR with 11 cycles.

From Nature May 8, 2018

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