'Baby Blue' - a prototype polymerase chain reaction (PCR), c 1986.
Image number: 10287482
This machine automates the process of making large quantities of DNA from a tiny starting sample. Automation is central to huge research enterprises such as the Human Genome Project, which sequenced the 35,000 genes in human cells.
- Image number:
- 10287482
- Credit:
- Science Museum/Science & Society Picture Library
- Date taken:
- 20 October 2003 12:40
- Image rights:
- Science Museum
