Cetus' Gems

[Cheung C. Yue]

In a previous article, dadler at u.washington.edu (David A. Adler) says:

>I just checked on the price of Cetus' PCR Gems:
>	$125 for 200-220 nuggets
>A good, but expensive, concept for hot starts and avoiding chloroform  
>extraction.
>Seems like a lot of money for what is likely to be very clean little pieces of  
>parafin wax. Anyone try making these themselves?
>
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>David A. Adler                  Pathology SM-30

I quite agree.  Perhaps we can form a co-operative experiment wherein
each laboratory tests several brand and lot numbers of waxes.  Anybody
interested?

C. Cho Yue
ccy at po.cwru.edu

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