blue X-gal stocks

[John Cooper]

In article <leach-011293221424 at med-pharm5.bu.edu> leach at mbcrr.harvard.edu (Martin Leach) writes:
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>From: leach at mbcrr.harvard.edu (Martin Leach)
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>Subject: Re: blue X-gal stocks
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>Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1993 22:14:24 +0000
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>In article <2dj72p$2s3 at samba.oit.unc.edu>, jtsuruta at med.unc.edu (James
>Tsuruta) wrote:
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>> I'm posting this for someone next-door.  Has anyone ever seen their X-gal
>> stock in DMF turn pale blue?  What can cause this? and is it OK to use in
>> top agar?
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>our X-gal goes brown/orange when overexposed to light.
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>Martin Leach
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We use our xgal that has turned yellow on our top agar and it works fine...
John Cooper, MD
NIH-NHLBI-LCM
Picard at Helix.NIH.GOV
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