Object Details
- Genentech, Inc.
- Description (Brief)
- This object is part of a set-up for vertical gel electrophoresis. Gel electrophoresis is a technique that uses the electrical charges of molecules to separate them by their length. It is often used to analyze DNA fragments.
- This set-up was cobbled together by scientists in the lab at Genentech, a biotechnology company, in the late 1970s and used through the 1980s. Its different components were purchased from several suppliers in the San Francisco Bay area and assembled together with binder clips.
- Because of its short length, this device was primarily used to perform preparative and analytical DNA work rather than sequencing, which requires a long length to provide greater resolution.
- Source:
- Interview with Dan Yansura, Genentech scientist, 12/20/2012
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Genentech
- ID Number
- 2012.0198.03
- accession number
- 2012.0198
- catalog number
- 2012.0198.03
- Object Name
- electrophoresis chamber
- Physical Description
- plastic (overall material)
- metal (overall material)
- glass (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 8 in x 8 3/4 in x 4 1/4 in; 20.32 cm x 22.225 cm x 10.795 cm
- place made
- United States: California, South San Francisco
- 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_1427243
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ad-8737-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
