destain
/diːˈsteɪn
/verb [with object] Biology
Selectively remove stain from (a specimen for microscopy, a chromatography gel, etc.) after it has previously been stained: (as noun destaining) after destaining the gel was dried and then apposed to X-ray film...
- We stained the gels in 0.1% Coomassie blue for 1 h and destained them in a 40% methanol and 10% acetic acid solution overnight.
- Papanicolaou staining and destaining do not interfere with indirect IS-PCR for HPV DNA detection.
- The gels were stained with Coomassie blue, destained, and dried, then analyzed by autoradiography overnight at - 80 deg C.
- not for a minute
- not for a (or one) moment
- not forgetting ——
- not for lack (or want) of trying
- not for love or money
- not for nothing
- not-for-profit
- not gate
- not give a bugger
- not give a shit
- not give a stuff
- not give a tinker's curse (or cuss or damn)
- not give (or care) a damn
- not give (or care) a fig
- not give (or care) a monkey's
- not give (or care) a rat's ass
- not give (or care) a whoop
- not give something houseroom
- not-go
- not go any further
- not guilty
- not half
- no thanks to
- not have a bar of
- not have a cat in hell's chance