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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024North′ern blot′, - Laboratory, Medicine[Biol., Med.]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.
- origin, originally as a facetious counterpart to Southern blot 1977
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