Methods library · Cells and imaging

Centrifugation and subcellular fractionation

Also called differential centrifugation, density gradient, CsCl gradient, ultracentrifugation

Separating organelles and macromolecules by size and density in a centrifuge and tracking them with marker enzymes.

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A schematic drawn in code, narrated by an AI narrator voice (Gemini, Charon) reading narration written from the lesson's text. First made for the lesson Experiments That Distinguish Mechanisms.

Where it is taught

15 lessons use this method.