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.
