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renaturation

[rē‚nach·ə′rā·shən]
(biochemistry)
The process of restoring denatured proteins to their original condition.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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Bagging the peanuts prevents migration and allows the PAD LOC Renature pads to be used as moldable padding.
Undeterred, the syndicates hired chemists to "renature" the alcohol, returning it to its semi-potable, and thus marketable, state?
PCR depends on the ability to alternately denature (melt) double-stranded DNA molecules and renature (anneal) complementary single strands in a controlled fashion.
(One concept that can be difficult to convey is that the plasmid DNA is also denatured by this treatment but since it is fairly small and the two single stands are intertwined, they are still held together and will renature [reanneal] when the solution is neutralized in the next step.) Point out that it is still not easy to find and isolate the washers from the marbles and twine pieces.
The ability of denatured nucleic acid molecules to renature or hybridize forms the basis for numerous methods and applications including southern blot, northern blot and PCR.
In so doing, it applies a high coaptive pressure to the tissue bundle during the generation of tissue temperatures under 100[degrees]C; hydrogen cross-links are first ruptured and then renature, resulting in a vascular seal that has high tensile strength.
One (Eco-Foam) is based on cornstarch, the other (Renature) on potato and other vegetable starches.
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