ß-galatosidase is an enzyme that has been co-opted by researchers as a reporter gene for successful molecular ligations and senescence assays. We often shorten the name of the assay to ß-gals. A friend of mine who did salmonella research, used to do so many of them that even his wife knew what they were. As a matter of fact, he talked about them so much that his wife called herself his "α-gal". Rather clever, I thought, also funny.
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