Origins of protein blotting.
The development of protein blotting in its early days is recounted as arising from the need to tackle a specific analytical problem. Combining diverse elements of common methods and simple lab equipment resulted in a procedure of general utility. The expansion of the idea of carrying out immunoassays on membranes as predecessors of microarrays is briefly touched upon.
Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, ETH Zurich, HCI H 430, Wolfgang-Pauli-Strasse 10, 8093, Zurich, Switzerland. harry.towbin@pharma.ethz.ch
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