Evolution of Lab Techniques
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...versions obsolete, the techniques we use in lab are replaced by improved versions that save both time and money...observed.
Today Southern blotting has been largely replaced by real-time PCR to answer the same experimental...unknown sequence. In the era before sequencing was commonplace, researchers used restriction mapping to investigate...this technology, radiolabelled nucleotides were replaced with fluorescently labeled ones allowing for fluorometric-based...discoveries (5, 8). While newer techniques have largely replaced these, these techniques still have useful applications...to recombinant DNA technologies that are now commonplace in laboratories.
As scientific technologies rapidly...