Figure 2: Illustration of an agarose gel electrophoresis setup. The agarose gel sits in a tank of buffer, the samples mixed with loading dye are placed in wells at one end of the gel and an electrical ...

Gel electrophoresis is a laboratory method used to separate mixtures of DNA, RNA, or proteins according to molecular size. In gel electrophoresis, the molecules to be separated are pushed by an ...

For a 30-year-old experimental method, gel electrophoresis remains popular. Originally devised as a method to extract nucleic acids from solution, it has evolved into a method for the analysis of ...