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What On Earth?
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I pride myself in being able to work out the basics of technology but this one has me stumped. What on earth do these things do?
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It's applications include detection of BSE ("mad-cow disease") in blood and tissue samples, detection of Lyme Disease (which can be very difficult to diagnose otherwise), FIV (the cat version of HIV) and loads more other more complex applications.
A typical "scientific explananation" it might well be Zacs-Master, but the reality is that I can't simplify it further for you. My explanation is so simplified that I'd expect criticism from my first year biochemistry students. Do you really want it in more detail?
A typical "scientific explananation" it might well be Zacs-Master, but the reality is that I can't simplify it further for you. My explanation is so simplified that I'd expect criticism from my first year biochemistry students. Do you really want it in more detail?
Thank God there was a some sanity as the usual suspects thrash around
- I wont say goading each other
perhaps vying with each other for the most gormless comment
why didnt anyone wiki it ? here
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and why isnt there a Southern blot ? erm there is - see article - invented by Edwin Southern, then as the fella above said, Western Blot came along and was named thus, as a sort of in jokey pun. see above again
Think of a soup of molecules of various sizes
you can get them to spread out in a gel sheet - smallest travelling fastest.
so basically this allows you to put them in an order of size.
Fun - students were tortured with this sort of detail thirty y ago in lab courses but it wasnt REALLY the technology used in the genome projects where you are talking about a billion yup 1000 000 000 individual blots.
Any book on molecular biology will have lots and lots on this.
I have to say not something for a Friday rainy night.
honestly Prof - you're not gonna get thro'
give them the refs and have a cup of tea....
- I wont say goading each other
perhaps vying with each other for the most gormless comment
why didnt anyone wiki it ? here
http://
and why isnt there a Southern blot ? erm there is - see article - invented by Edwin Southern, then as the fella above said, Western Blot came along and was named thus, as a sort of in jokey pun. see above again
Think of a soup of molecules of various sizes
you can get them to spread out in a gel sheet - smallest travelling fastest.
so basically this allows you to put them in an order of size.
Fun - students were tortured with this sort of detail thirty y ago in lab courses but it wasnt REALLY the technology used in the genome projects where you are talking about a billion yup 1000 000 000 individual blots.
Any book on molecular biology will have lots and lots on this.
I have to say not something for a Friday rainy night.
honestly Prof - you're not gonna get thro'
give them the refs and have a cup of tea....
