Object Details
- Description (Brief)
- This plastic chamber was part of a set-up for a vertical gel electrophoresis chamber used in the lab at Genentech, a biotechnology company, in the late 1970s and early 1980s. 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.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- user
- Genentech, Inc.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Genentech
- Physical Description
- metal (overal material)
- plastic (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 3 1/8 in x 9 1/4 in x 5 9/16 in; 7.9375 cm x 23.495 cm x 14.12875 cm
- Object Name
- electrophoresis chamber
