Sarah Cohen-Woods

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Braking speed on a centrifuge?

Inordinantly stupid question, but the centrifuge manual does not provide this information - does a high brake (9) mean a fast or slow brake? I have always assumed it means fast, but I cannot seem...

22 August 2016 8,482 3 View

I had to ship dITPs from Europe (I am in Australia) on cold packs - took over 1 week (they were not cold on arrival). Will they still work??

I needed some dITPs (2'-deoxyinosine 5'-triphosphate) for a PCR reaction to get optimal results. However being in Australia the wait would be over 3 weeks so I took a gamble and hoped to receive...

16 August 2016 561 6 View

Why am I getting such poor yield from RNAlater stored whole blood samples (human)?

- I have been working on extracting RNA from whole blood (500ul) stored in RNAlater (1500ul). I have been using the Zymo Quick RNA mini-prep kits and getting yields of

27 October 2015 8,613 3 View