Strong contamination with ethidium bromide

[Jim 3975]

To get cancer, 16 years is nothing. People who start smoking at 16 don't get 
lung cancer until 40, 50 years later. (Average age of lung cancer death is 
~70)
Bruce Ames showed in a PNAS paper in the seventies that smoking is more 
mutagenic than ethidum bromide (using fairly realistic doses of both).

>"Prof. Piero Sestili" <sestili from uniurb.it> wrote in message 
>news:mailman.1372.1181135432.5139.methods from net.bio.net...
>Nothing to do with the past contamination!  Probably few EB molecules
>penetrated to the germinative layer of your skin and most of it was
>cleared by corneum.  Just forget it!  16 years ago I noticed an EB stain
>on my right hand, due to unexpectedly broken gloves: I'm still here,
>writing with the same hand....

>For the future simply wear two pairs of lattice gloves when using EB:
>normal gloves do not protect so much...and go on with your PhD