Which inventor of pulsed field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) is now working to make it obsolete for microbiologists?
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At Columbia University in 1984, Schwartz and Cantor developed Pulsed Field Gel Electrophoresis (PFGE), introducing alternating voltage gradient to gel electrophoresis to better the resolution of larger molecules. Dr. Charles Cantor is the Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer for Sequenom, and an advocate for iSEQ Comparative Sequence Analysis.
Reference: Schwartz DC, Cantor CR. Separation of yeast chromosome-sized DNAs by pulsed field gradient gel electrophoresis. Cell. 1984 May; 37(1):67–75.
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