A northern blot is a laboratory method used to detect specific RNA molecules among a mixture of RNA. Northern blotting can be used to analyze a sample of RNA from a particular tissue or cell type ...

Northern blotting and hybridization are used to study gene expression by detecting RNA species of interest, and to identify alternate RNA splicing patterns. It is analogous to Southern blotting ...

One advantage of Northern blotting is the ease with which comparative analyses can be carried out, as researchers can run RNA samples representing different developmental time points, tissues, or ...