Electrophoresis Chamber
name: label: user
content: Genentech, Inc.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: 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.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: used
content: United States: California, South San Francisco
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content: Medicine and Science: Biological Sciences
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content: Biotechnology and Genetics
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content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Genentech
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2012.0198.05
label: accession number
content: 2012.0198
label: catalog number
content: 2012.0198.05
objectType: label: Object Name
content: electrophoresis chamber
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overal material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: 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