A special lot of DEPC

[Dr. Duncan Clark]

In article <Pine.GSO.4.05.10003301030170.1206-100000 at genius.embnet.dkfz-
heidelberg.de>, csc <un691cs at genius.embnet.dkfz-heidelberg.de> writes
>
>What I always found curious, is that after autoclaving of water + DEPC, I
>still would distinctly smell DEPC... I stopped treating my solutions with
>DEPC alltogether, because I presumed some residual chemical (DEPC ?)
>remained in the bottle.

We autoclave twice, for an hour each. I think this is what Eric, the
Ambion guy, suggested many moons ago. 

On that note I haven't seen a post from Eric for quite some time. Must
be inventing more goodies!

Duncan
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