Patent ID: 7320747

Claim:
An apparatus for performing electrophoresis therein, comprising: a housing including a base and peripherally joined walls defining a first chamber having a first longitudinal end and a second longitudinal end; a solidified hybrid gel for horizontal electrophoresis of a sample within an acrylamide gel, said hybrid gel including a substantially solidified first gel portion in communication with a substantially solidified second gel portion, said solidified first gel portion having at least sufficient agarose for enabling accommodation therein of the sample for an electrophoresis process after said first gel portion is solidified, and said second gel portion being made substantively from acrylamide and enabling the electrophoresis process to be applied within said second gel portion to the sample accommodated in said first gel portion, said solidified hybrid gel being accommodated in said first chamber and arranged such that migration occurs in a direction from said second end to said first end when said device is used in the electrophoretic process; said base having formed therein a first opening and a said second opening respectively at said first and second longitudinal ends thereof, each of said openings being adapted to permit ionic communication between said gel and an external ionic buffer solution; and substantially hollow first and second transverse legs downwardly depending therefrom at said first and second longitudinal ends thereof, respectively, said first and second legs including a suitable third gel portion and a suitable fourth gel portion, respectively, communicating with said first chamber via said corresponding openings, said first and second legs having open bottom ends.