Instrument
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- 2024.022.001
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- Instrument
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This instrument was used in the late 1980s in Victor Ambros's research on microRNA, which is crucial to how different genes impact on different cells.
The instrument is a controller for a type of electrophoresis used to separate molecular fragments of different sizes. Ambros used it to detect and isolate large pieces of DNA. This was a crucial step in the examinations of the lin-4 gene and its impact on microRNA.
The instrument was the first to be developed by the company MJ Devices, founded by the brothers Michael and John Finney. Incidentally, Michael Finney was also a doctoral student in the future Nobel Prize laureate Robert Horvitz's laboratory.
Victor Ambros donated the instrument to the Nobel Prize Museum in 2024. - Pristagare
- Victor Ambros
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