Drying of agarose gel

[I-Jen Huang]

In article <3mjvt5$ru8 at netnews.upenn.edu> "David M. Lukac" <Lukac at a1.mscf.upenn.edu> writes:
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>From: "David M. Lukac" <Lukac at a1.mscf.upenn.edu>
>Date: 13 Apr 1995 20:00:37 GMT
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>Help!  Does anyone have a reliable method for drying agarose gels for 
>analysis of radiolabelled nucleic acids?
>        I assume that the gel needs to be fixed first, and that vacuum
>drying is not possible.

>                        Thanks,

>                        Dave
Dave
I have dried many agarose gels by using the same type of membrane for drying 
SDS-PAGE. 

I. Huang
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