A new development in gel electrophoresis allows investigators to fractionate and analyse DNA species from 10,000 to more than a million base pairs.
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Smith, C., Cantor, C. Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis of large DNA molecules. Nature 319, 701–702 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1038/319701a0
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