Hi Wo, RNA can be precipitated (standard salt/ethanol precipitation: add 0.1 vol 3M NaAcetate pH 5.2, + 2.5 vol ethanol 100%, keep at -20C or -80C ~1h, centrifuge at 13k rpm in a microcentrifuge) and either sent with the ethanol and sodium acetate, or as a dry pellet (which reduces the risk of spills during shipping). In that form, it is fairly stable.
Best, Jonathan Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2012 19:02:49 -0700 (PDT) From: WS <[email protected]> Subject: Re: RNA shipment To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Are there alternatives to ship RNA on dry ice, like using a formulation titled RNAlater (http://ccoon.myweb.usf.edu/ecoimmunology.org/RNAlater_recipe.html). Does that stuff work in reality? I'd like to ship an animal blood (or leukocyte) sample in order to isolate mRNA myself. Is that likely to work? Thanks and best regards, Wo ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Methods mailing list [email protected] http://www.bio.net/biomail/listinfo/methods End of Methods Digest, Vol 89, Issue 3 ************************************** _______________________________________________ Methods mailing list [email protected] http://www.bio.net/biomail/listinfo/methods
