Object Details
user
Cohen, Stanley N.
Description (Brief)
This case held electron microscope (EM) grids used in the lab of Stanley Cohen at Stanford University. Made from tiny circles of copper mesh, EM grids are analogous to the glass slides used to mount samples for viewing under a light microscope. These grids were used to support recombinant bacteria and recombinant plasmids for study and analysis under the electron microscope. One of the grids contains a sample of Cohen and Boyer’s first recombinant plasmid. Photographic images of the first recombinant plasmids used in publications on Cohen and Boyer’s research were made from these grids.
For more information on the Cohen/Boyer experiments with recombinant DNA, see object 1987.0757.01
Sources:
Accession File
“EM Grid Preparation.” Purdue University. Accessed December 2012. http://bilbo.bio.purdue.edu/~baker/documentation/sample_and_prep/b2.htm
Location
Currently not on view
Credit Line
Stanley N. Cohen, MD and Stanford University Medical Center
ID Number
1987.0757.07.02
catalog number
1987.0757.07.02
accession number
1987.0757
Object Name
grid, electron microscope
Physical Description
plastic (overall material)
copper (overall material)
Measurements
average spatial: .3 cm; x 1/8 in
associated place
United States: California, Stanford, Stanford
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Medicine and Science: Medicine
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Data Source
National Museum of American History
Subject
Microscopy
Link to Original Record
Record ID
nmah_1131087