incubation

incubate | American Dictionary

incubate
verb[ I/T ]
us/ˈɪŋ·kjəˌbeɪt, ˈɪn-/
to keep something warm, causing it to develop, esp. to keep eggs warm until the young are born:
Condors incubate only one egg and raise one chick at a time.
Lyme disease is caused by bacteria that incubate in forest animals, such as mice.

Examples of incubate

incubate
Retinas were incubated in primary antibody in blocking solution overnight at room temperature with gentle agitation.
The gels were blotted onto nitrocellulose, the nitrocellulose cut into strips, and the strips incubated with antibodies to cytoskeletal proteins.
Retinas were dissected from dark-adapted mice and incubated for 30 min in dark or ambient light.
The wells were overlaid with a mixture of agarose and tissue culture medium and incubated for 7-13 days.
Three embryonated chicken eggs incubated for 9 days were injected with 0.2 ml of the solution per egg.
The wells were incubated for 2 h at room temperature with diluted human sera.
Samples were incubated for 2 h and faecal sediments were harvested by sequential centrifugation in 15 ml test tubes.
The cultures were incubated and colony diameters of the fungi were measured at regular intervals.
The plate was incubated for 1.5 h at room temperature.
The plates were incubated at room temperature for 60 min and washed before a substrate solution was added.
Blots were incubated overnight with the various test sera.
The flask was incubated for a period depending on ambient temperature.
The nematode was incubated in ivermectin for a total period of 30 min ; spike activity was recorded for the last 2 min of this period.
In order to investigate the mechanism of triclabendazole resistance, triclabendazole-susceptible and triclabendazole-resistant flukes were incubated in vitro with triclabendazole sulphoxide (50 g\\ml).
Samples containing distilled water alone (blank) and others spiked with faecal material were also incubated in order to assess the effectiveness of the incubation phase.
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