electrophorese

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English

Etymology

Back-formation from electrophoresis.

Verb

electrophorese (third-person singular simple present electrophoreses, present participle electrophoresing, simple past and past participle electrophoresed)

  1. (biochemistry) To carry out electrophoresis on something.
    • 1995, Kwang-Soo Kim et al., “Analysis of gene expression by blotting techniques”, in Gene Probes 2, →ISBN, page 156:
      The approach taken is to electrophorese the RNA sample on an agarose gel under denaturing conditions.