Cocktail sticks and toothpicks supplier

[Paul N Hengen]

Chris Boyd (chrisb at hgu.mrc.ac.uk) wrote:

> However inexpensive these plastic loops might be (and the same goes for
> yellow tips), they are 100 to 1000 times as expensive as toothpicks. 
> And they screw up the environment more when discarded!

So, nobody can really confirm that wooden toothpicks are a problem for
screening colonies by PCR????

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