Hi,
I ran 100ng of gDNA on a 0.7% agarose gel at 80V for 45min in 1XTAE buffer which was made fresh from a 50X stock which was produced 3 days ago.
The samples were loaded in wells 3 and 5 where lane 1 was used for a 1Kb+ ladder.
At 30 minutes, the gel was paused and the latter half of the ladder looked quite gathered, so I continued to run for a further 15 minutes. The sample appears as a faint band above the top of the ladder and a very bright band at the base of the gel (but still on the gel), but well below the ladder.
Has my gDNA degraded to nothing? Have only ever run gels for mRNA before. Is this typical of gDNA?