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Ethidium Bromide Safety



So I recently just put my bare hands into a tub of this on accident! Anyone that will take a Biology or Genetics Lab will probably come across this chemical.

Use: To detect nucleic acids in agarose gel's during electrophoresis.

Hazard: MUTAGEN!! when Ethidium Bromide makes its way into your cell it can slip in between your base pairs of DNA and affect replication and transcription .

For more information http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Ethidium_bromide

-K.B.-



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