Author:
Green Michael R.,Sambrook Joseph
Abstract
Many of the commonly used techniques in molecular cloning depend on methods to map accurately the distribution of radioactive atoms on two-dimensional (2D) surfaces. Without this ability, methods such as Southern blotting, northern hybridizations, radiolabeled DNA sequencing, and library screening would not have been possible. In the 1970s and 1980s—the pioneering days of molecular cloning—imaging of 2D surfaces was obtained using autoradiography. In this technique, β-particles emitted by radioactive specimens were recorded on X-ray film, producing a latent image that can be converted to a true image by developing and fixing the film. Autoradiography was a lot of fun, but it was also messy. In the impatient excitement of wanting to see how an experiment had turned out, people used to hold the newly developed X-ray films in their metal frames up to the darkroom light. Drips of the final wash would run down their arms, clothes would be stained, and shoes ruined. It is hardly surprising that autoradiography was quickly abandoned when sensitive phosphorimagers came onto the market at the end of the 1990s.
Publisher
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Subject
General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Cited by
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