. Hi Proo
I have been back through the first twenty answers of which yours is the first and is perhaps the intellectual high point.
I dont regard as contributory in any way:
weecalf: I thought it was a shredder.....Zacs-Master Oh dear. Typical 'scientific' explanation. Without any practical application info
as for your baffling sentence: be baffled no more.
stuff may not be coloured. {stuff-flashy antibody} will flash in UV light but it is expensive to produce. SO you make a anti-sheep antibody that will flash - quite cheap if you make lots and lots
and THEN stuff-antibody made in sheep - antibody against sheep which flashes is effectively a sarny. and your baffling sentence tells punters that this much cheap sarny is available in the system they would be buying.
The next generation of blotting was better. Suppose you have a protein:
a-b-c-d-e-f
and your protein soup is a, b-x, c-x-x, d-x-x-x, e-x-x-x-x and so on
if you analyse that with a Western blot, you will notice that being small,
A is a t the top and then B-x and then C-x-x, so that altho you have selected them by size, you can hold up your gel and read out A, B, C, D...
which is the order of the units on the protein.
So you can sequence the protein ( or DNA ).
Clever huh ? yes .... very very clever
but instead, we had comments like if only I had known they were gonna use PCDF gel I would have.....
I suppose it was the sheer number of p+ssy little comments and one-liners that overwhelmed me