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Smear

smear

1. To overspread with anything unctuous, viscous, or adhesive; to daub; as, to smear anything with oil. Smear the sleepy grooms with blood.

2. To soil in any way; to contaminate; to pollute; to stain morally; as, to be smeared with infamy.

Origin: OE. Smeren, smerien, AS. Smierwan, smyrwan, fr. Smeoru fat, grease; akin to D. Smeren, OHG. Smirwen, G. Schmieren, Icel. Smyrja to anoint. See Smear.


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Anybody knows how stable is ssDNA??

... say you may have degradation. A quick thing you can do is run a small quantity of it on a gel, and see if it is all the same size. If you get a smear, you had degradation.

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by MrMistery
Fri Jun 12, 2009 7:20 pm
 
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Re: Colony PCR

determining where the smear appears may help determine whether it is chromosome DNA or plasmid DNA.

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by pcrboy
Mon Jan 26, 2009 8:17 am
 
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Topic: Colony PCR
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Colony PCR

I did a colony pcr reaction (final vol 100ul) and the product was electrophoresed in 1.2% agarose gel . After complete run I observed a smear from one end to another end in each well (of the gel) including blank (without template). I thought that problem with concentration of DNA template ...

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by shivakumar
Thu Dec 18, 2008 10:40 am
 
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Antibodies to ID mouse neutrophils and monocytes

... numbers and I got no problem on distinguishing between neutrophil and monocyte (even you can do this manually just like what I did by blood smear preparation and light microscope when the equipment was broken here :)) Those cells have different size and different granules, which the equipment ...

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by DoctorStein
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