The southern blotting technique was first developed in 1975 by Ed Southern and is typically employed for the high salt capillary transfer of DNA to a nylon membrane. The steps for southern blotting are outlined below:
During my time in the laboratory I learnt that there are certain pieces of equipment that I can not live without and regardless of what experiment I was conducting, they always played an important part in helping me to achieve results. This list is generated in respect to genetics as this is the area in which I specialised in. Some of the tools listed are universal for all fields of science others are exclusive used by geneticists. These are my top five tools for laboratory experiments.
I may have put across a strong opinion in the title but I personally believe that microarrays will become a large factor in genetic research and I hope that by the end of this post you understand why I have put across such a strong opinion.
What are microarrays?
As microarray is a recent form of biotechnology that. So some of you may be unaware as to what a microarray actually is. It is a chip containing a collection of sequences that are homologous to various genes.
Creativity has always been a limiting factor for designers when they start designing a new car, the fact that the car is created from metals such as aluminium and steel, designers have had to factor this into any design and thus enforcing a cap on their creativity.
Well BMW have decided to think outside the box and created the new BMW GINA light visionary model. This new concept has truly pushed the boundaries of car design and is likely to restructure car design for good.
