Western blot

[Akbar Safi]

What is western blot and why it is called western blot.thank you

[CharonY]

For the first part of the question you should just google it and ask if something is unclear to you. For the second, originally Edwin Southern developed a blot-based analysis method for DNA. That was termed Southern blot. Other techniques developed for further biomolecules (hint hint) were named Northern and Western in reference to Southern (as an academic joke, I would think).