Object Details
- Genentech, Inc.
- Description (Brief)
- This white plastic electrophoresis comb has 17 tines. Scientists at Genentech, a biotechnology company, made this comb themselves in the late 1970s by cutting it out of a sheet of plastic.
- Electrophoresis combs are used to create the wells in gels for electrophoresis, a technique that uses the electrical charges of molecules to separate them by their length. It is often used to analyze DNA fragments. When a gel is poured, a comb is inserted. After the gel solidifies, the comb is removed, leaving wells for samples.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Genentech
- ID Number
- 2012.0198.16
- accession number
- 2012.0198
- catalog number
- 2012.0198.16
- Object Name
- comb, electrophoresis
- Physical Description
- plastic (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 1 1/4 in x 5 7/16 in; 3.175 cm x 13.81125 cm
- used
- United States: California, South San Francisco
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Biological Sciences
- Biotechnology and Genetics
- Science & Mathematics
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1427270
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ad-8a9a-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
