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transfectiesups

English translation: transfection supernatants


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Dutch term or phrase:transfectiesups
English translation:transfection supernatants
Entered by: Sally Hill
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07:11 Jun 8, 2010
Dutch to English translations [PRO]
Medical - Biology (-tech,-chem,micro-) / laboratory techniques in cell biology
Dutch term or phrase: transfectiesups
(something used for transfection) (singular is "sup")
TechLawDC
United States
transfection supernatants
Explanation:
With no context this would be my guess.
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Sally Hill
Local time: 08:45
Grading comment
I think both answers are good, but elsewhere in the document the term "supernatant" was used in connection with transfection.
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Summary of answers provided
3 +1transfection supernatants
Sally Hill
3supercoiled plasmid DNA or siRNA constructs transfected
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17 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
supercoiled plasmid DNA or siRNA constructs transfected


Explanation:
See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfection
and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_supercoil

I suspect this is a shortening of the word "supercoil" but am not entirely sure.

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22 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
transfection supernatants


Explanation:
With no context this would be my guess.

Sally Hill
Local time: 08:45
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
I think both answers are good, but elsewhere in the document the term "supernatant" was used in connection with transfection.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Titia Meesters: Sup is the generally used abbr for supernatant. After centrifuging cells down, the sup contains the plasmids to be transfected
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Changes made by editors
Jun 10, 2010 - Changes made by Sally Hill:
Edited KOG entryTechLawDC's old entry - "transfectiesups" => "transfection supernatants; supercoiled nucleic acid constructs"
Jun 10, 2010 - Changes made by TechLawDC:
Created KOG entryKudoZ term => KOG term


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