Month: August 2012

Gene cloning made safer and more sensitive

AN ALTERNATIVE to ethidium bromide which is said to be more flexible in use as well as being safe and sensitive has been introduced by Cleaver Scientific. The company describes RunSafe as a significant new tool for gene cloning applications,…

Multiply the water supplies in a fume cupboard

A COMMON practice when multiple condensers are deployed in laboratory fume cupboards is to daisy-chain the devices in series. This can be effective, but means that the chilling effect of the water is not uniform. Asynt says its water manifold…