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- noun A
centrifuge used in laboratories to separate materials from small samples (especially of biological material)
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Examples
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However, I did have a fairly bad time of it last night; so a microcentrifuge tube of EtBr to strange brain functions.
Archive 2008-02-01 Amanda 2008
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However, I did have a fairly bad time of it last night; so a microcentrifuge tube of EtBr to strange brain functions.
Coffee and Ethidium Bromide, II Amanda 2008
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It consisted of mysterious enclaves of petri dishes and microcentrifuge tubes, wellheated offices, antiseptic conference rooms, and a lounge presided over by a scrofulous penguin in a glass case.
Terra Incognita Wheeler, Sarah 1996
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In a Harvard Medical School corridor on a rainy Saturday afternoon, a handful of graduate students are emptying boxes of scientific equipment into the hallway to take inventory: microcentrifuge tubes, radiation counters, micropipetters, Erlenmeyer flasks.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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Suspecting that their microcentrifuge tubes might be the culprits, Robson and his colleagues took a closer look at ten types of tube from nine manufacturers, using mass spectrometry to determine the levels of leached chemicals.
Scientific American 2010
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Lysates were cleared by centrifugation for 20 minutes at 15,000 rpm in a microcentrifuge and the supernatants were assayed for protein concentration by Bradford assay using BSA as a standard.
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Wearing blue gloves, he uses a pipettor -- like a giant syringe -- to withdraw a small amount of liquid from a microcentrifuge and inject it into a tiny tray.
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Individual LCM-derived pieces of tissue were collected by gravity into a microcentrifuge tube containing
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Antoine Disset et al. 2009
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Insoluble debris was removed by centrifugation for 5 min at 14000 rpm in a microcentrifuge.
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Briefly, exosomes were fixed to beads (4.0 µm latex beads, 4\% solids, Interfacial Dynamics 12-4000) by incubation of 5 µg purified exosomes, as measured by Bradford assay, with 10 µl latex beads for 15 min at room temperature in a 1.5 ml microcentrifuge tube.
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