The late 1970s saw the first publicly reported use of the western blot, a technique for
assessing the presence and relative abundance of specific proteins within complex
biological samples. Since then, western blotting methodology has become a common
component of the molecular biologists experimental repertoire. A cursory search of PubMed
using the term “western blot” suggests that in excess of two hundred and twenty thousand
published manuscripts have made use of this technique by the year 2014. Importantly, the …