单词 | northern blot |
释义 | Northern blot in American Englishnoun Biology & Medicine a procedure for studying the activity of a specific gene, as in testing for a hereditary defect: RNA fragments in an extract of a cell population or a tissue are separated by gel electrophoresis, transferred to a filter, and then hybridized with labeled DNA or RNA derived from a laboratory-engineered copy of the gene in order to identify the size and abundance of the RNA expressed by that gene Word origin [1977; orig. as a facetious counterpart to southern blot] |
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