Why am I have such awful western blot bands on the 70 kDa?

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Mahesh Chandak

There are several things which can go wrong in WB, your question does not provide details because of which it is difficult to provide concrete answer/suggestion. Only suggestion which I can think of is - You may redo it where you can load half of the amount that you loaded last time with empty lanes in between samples