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Sir Edwin Mellor Southern FRS FRSE (born 7 June 1938) is an English Lasker Award-winning molecular biologist, Emeritus Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Oxford and a fellow of Trinity College, Oxford.
Edwin Southern developed a blotting technique for DNA in 1973, thereby creating a staple of molecular biology laboratory procedures still used after several decades. It became a seminal technology for studying the structure of DNA.
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Mar 28, 2014 · DNA pioneer Professor Sir Edwin Southern on the future of genomics. The renowned biochemist discusses his scientific work and his cottage, a former chicken shed in the Scottish Borders. Professor...
Edwin Southern is a renowned biochemist and the founder of OGT, a company that provides genetics research solutions. He invented the Southern blot and the microarray, two techniques that enabled the rapid analysis of DNA and RNA.
As a child growing up in the cotton town of Burnley, Lancashire, UK, Edwin Southern was so intrigued by the weaving process that he would make miniature looms out of darning needles and the like, attempting to figure out how certain patterns were made.
Nov 20, 2023 · Sir Edwin Mellor Southern FRS FRSE is an English Lasker Award-winning molecular biologist, Emeritus Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Oxford and a fellow of Trinity...
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Professor Sir Edwin Southern, a molecular biologist with a PhD from Glasgow University, is known for the development of two methods for analyzing complex DNAs.
