Alex Salam

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How to elute virus from dried blood spots for purpose of viral culture?

Hi. I am collected blood from patients with a BSL-4 virus onto filter paper, i.e dried blood spots. We are running some validation experiments to see whether the drying process inactive the virus....

06 August 2019 739 3 View

Is it possible to use Qiagen RNA extraction kits on cells that have been frozen in Trizol for RNA preservation?

I am storing PBMCs for a long time before analysing gene expression. These PBMCs will have a BSL category 4 virus within them. So I need to inactivate the virus before processing the samples....

06 September 2018 5,159 2 View

Can you freeze whole blood, and then subsequently isolate PBMCs?

Hi, we are working in a very resource limited setting where the lab resources on site are very basic. We are doing serial blood sampling for drug concentrations, which includes overnight samples....

09 May 2018 907 11 View