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“I’ve been wondering when someone was finally going to invent the Eastern Blot” – Derek from In the Pipeline.
“Eastern Blot” is a biochemical joke:
“Southern Blot” is a technique used to study DNA. It was invented by, and named after a Mr. Southern.
Later, someone adapted it to study the related molecule RNA. They called it “Northern Blot”.
A third method, developed to study proteins, was named “Western Blot”.
“Eastern Blot” doesn’t exist: There is no other molecule in the family of DNA/RNA/protein, so there is no technique called “Eastern Blot”, nor will there ever be.
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