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This is Ed Southern. He developed a method of detecting specific DNA sequences by using radiolabeled DNA probes on gel separated DNA. We call them Southern blots.

When a similar method was developed that used RNA instead of DNA...
... the snickering scientists called it a Northern blot, to make it the opposite of Ed Southern's technique.

Then someone came up with a similar way of detecting proteins using other proteins, and using the same funny/not funny naming method, called it a #WesternBlot.
My point, and this cannot be emphasized enough, is this:
#Biologists have a terrible, terrible, terrible sense of what is funny.
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