"When we opened this facility three years ago, some people told me that in three years you won't do gel electrophoresis any more, so why invest in the equipment?" says Thomas Franz, head of the ...

In this form of pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (transverse alternating field electrophoresis, also known as TAFE), electrodes are positioned on opposite sides of a vertical gel 1. The DNA moves ...

Gel electrophoresis is a laboratory method used to separate mixtures of DNA, RNA, or proteins according to molecular size. In gel electrophoresis, the molecules to be separated are pushed by an ...