The name “eastern blot” only makes perfect sense for a technique that detects a fourth type of molecule in the DNA/RNA/protein set, but such a technique cannot exist, because that molecule does not exist. (2005) L Eastern blot è stato utilizzato per descrivere una macchia di proteine sulla membrana di fluoruro di polivinilidene in cui la sonda è un aptamero piuttosto che un anticorpo.

You can insist that it has something to do with glycolosation detection, but someone else might think you mean that you just switched the poles on a western blot. Later, northern blot was used for a similar method involving RNA, and western blot for protein, but there is no eastern blot, because there is no fourth molecule in the DNA/RNA/protein set.Ī note about all the techniques that are called “eastern blot”: Too many different things are all called “eastern blot” by people who wanted to market their method as something to do with blotting and biochemistry. Far-eastern blotting allows for the following techniques: Purification of glycosphingolipids and phospholipids. Applications of this with other methods have been studied. Southern invented the Southern blot to detect DNA of different sizes. Far-eastern blotting was established as a method for transferring lipids from an HPTLC plate to a polyvinyledene difluoride ( PVDF) membrane within a minute. See my portfolio for science writing and communication projects.Īn eastern blot is a non-existent biochemical technique. If you need a more formal biography, those are here. Eva also plays violin, but not right now. She’s interested in the way scientists communicate with each other and share information, via the web or otherwise. Eva has a PhD in biochemistry, but now works with scientists rather than as one. The Eastern Bloc, also known as the Communist Bloc, the Socialist Bloc and the Soviet Bloc, was the group of socialist states of Central and Eastern Europe, East Asia, Southeast Asia, Africa and Latin America under the influence of the Soviet Union that existed during the Cold War (19451991).