(thing) by BioTech Sun Feb 09 2003 at 6:46:07

Also called: radiolabel

A mildly radioactive molecule that is used to "tag" another molecule (such as a protein) so that it can be identified as it goes through some kind of biochemical process.

From the BioTech Dictionary at http://biotech.icmb.utexas.edu/. For further information see the BioTech homenode.

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