Yes, you can :)

You can take any reporter that is

1) efficiently quanched by the quancher (BHQs are quite promiscous) and

2) efficiently excited and detected by your intrument (depending on laser/LED wavelength and filters/detectors)

NED has the Excitation peak at 550nm, FAM at 495: check if FAM will be excited.

NED has the Emmission peak at 570nm, FAM at 515: check if FAM will be detected.

If both answers are "yes" then there is nothing to say against using FAM intead of NED. Most real-time cyclers should have the appropriate optics to measure FAM, so this shouldn't be a problem.

Note that Cy3 has the same spectral properties like NED (in case you are just looking for a possibly cheaper alternative). And instead of FAM you might consider HEX, JOE, VIC, or TMR, that have spectral properties that are more similar to NED than those of FAM.

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