Object Details
- Cohen, Stanley N.
- Description (Brief)
- This case held electron microscope (EM) grids used in the lab of Stanley Cohen at Stanford University. Made from tiny circles of copper mesh, EM grids are analogous to the glass slides used to mount samples for viewing under a light microscope. These grids were used to support recombinant bacteria and recombinant plasmids for study and analysis under the electron microscope. One of the grids contains a sample of Cohen and Boyer’s first recombinant plasmid. Photographic images of the first recombinant plasmids used in publications on Cohen and Boyer’s research were made from these grids.
- For more information on the Cohen/Boyer experiments with recombinant DNA, see object 1987.0757.01
- Sources:
- Accession File
- “EM Grid Preparation.” Purdue University. Accessed December 2012. http://bilbo.bio.purdue.edu/~baker/documentation/sample_and_prep/b2.htm
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Stanley N. Cohen, MD and Stanford University Medical Center
- ID Number
- 1987.0757.07.02
- catalog number
- 1987.0757.07.02
- accession number
- 1987.0757
- Object Name
- grid, electron microscope
- Physical Description
- plastic (overall material)
- copper (overall material)
- Measurements
- average spatial: .3 cm; x 1/8 in
- associated place
- United States: California, Stanford, Stanford
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Biotechnology and Genetics
- Science & Mathematics
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Microscopy
- Record ID
- nmah_1131087
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a9-ac6a-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
