The Southern blot is the most common way to analyse restriction endonuclease-digested DNA to find specific sequences of interest. It uses the fact that denatured nucleic acids will bind to ...

The technique became known as 'northern blotting'—a pun ... proteins to nitrocellulose membranes 7, published later the same year. Today, Towbin's western method is clearly the preferred ...

Following separation, the proteins are transferred from the gel onto a blotting membrane. Although this step is what gives the technique the name "western blotting," the term is typically used to ...