title: Origins of protein blotting.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, ETH Zurich, HCI H 430, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 1-5/10, 8093, Zurich, Switzerland, harry.towbin@pharma.ethz.ch.
authors.forename: Harry
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Towbin
mesh_terms: D015153:Blotting, Western / Q000266:history*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D011506:Proteins / Q000032:analysis* / Q000302:isolation & purification
chemical_list: D011506:Proteins