ethidium bromide contamination on clothes

[Aawara Chowdhury]

In <dt68un$6qn$1 at news.doit.wisc.edu>,
 DK <dk at no.email.thankstospam.net> wrote:

> No need to be that paranoid. EthBr is very soluble and was washed 
> away in your washer just fine. Besides, the amounts you are talking 
> about are incredibly negligible to begin with. 
>
> And that is not to mention that EthBr is not particularly mutagenic and
> it's carcinogenicity is entirely putative. A single smoked sigarette 
> contains 100X more mutagenes than the amount of EthBr you are 
> talking about. 

Does ethidium bromide even cross the plasma membrane of intact cells?

AC
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