RNA electrophoresis

[Patrick HJ Falckh]

Hi y'all,

I also add Ethidium bromide to my RNA samples before I heat shock them.  
The major difference is that when the samples are heat shocked with EtBr 
then the  resultant bands are approx. 10X brighter than when you stain 
the gel itself or when you add the EtBr after heat shocking.  I've never 
had any problems with this method (initially came from Focus 10.1, I 
think) and you will use considerably less EtBr, hence lowere incidence 
of accidents etc.

Regards
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