What is the trouble shooting in deparaffinization using melting ?

Paris Kyriakopoulos @Paris-Kyriakopoulos

12 June 2023 0 9K Report

i want to do RNA extraction on a tissue sample that has undergone paraffinization. After the deparaffinization using melting i did rna extraction and the result is a very low concentrate of rna. What could have gone wrong in the first procedure?

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