EtBr ussage

[Cheung C. Yue]

In a previous article, brennanp at vax1.tcd.ie () says:

>On EtBr,
>
>I once heard an interesting suggestion that instead of soaking
>the gel in EtBr to add small amount of EtBr soln to the samples
>before running the gel.  It still allows visualation but does
>not require the large amts of EtBr reqd for soaking gels.
>
>

I have used 1 microliter of 1 mg/ml ethidium bromide added to the sample
before loading onto the gel.  Works quite well.

C Cho Yue
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