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Biomedicine in museums

Sartoblot II-S — the whereabouts

As I told in an earlier post, we are working on an exhibition about the history of proteins, which will open at the faculty of Health Sciences in early September. I visited the medical history museum in Uppsala, Sweden, a few months ago to see their astounding collections of clinical chemical artefacts. Here I found, among other things, an electrophoresis apparatus  made by the laboratory device company Sartorius — a so called Sartoblot II-S — a wonderfully coloured box which seems to have been standard equipment in biomedical laboratories in the 1980’s and 1990’s: you can still buy used specimens on the web from second hand dealers.  

The problem is that I don’t know how, when and where this kind of apparatus was used in daily practice. Does anybody have any images of it in a laboratory setting? Any gels produced by it? Any experimental results coming out of it? All kinds of info are much appreciated.

Thomas Söderqvist

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