gel electrophoresis

noun

: 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

Examples of gel electrophoresis in a Sentence

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The techniques are then used to run an experiment using polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to amplify DNA from antibiotic-resistant bacteria, that can then be further examined using gel electrophoresis. —Kendra MacK, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Aug. 2023

That venom product could then be separated into individual components and identified using gel electrophoresis, liquid chromatography, and mass spectrometry. —Christie Wilcox, Discover Magazine, 2 June 2015

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, 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, 30 Apr. 2018

Word History

First Known Use

1955, in the meaning defined above

Medical Definition

gel electrophoresis

noun

: 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