[DIYbio] Re: Shipping Check Cell Samples for PTC Taste Tedt for Extended Family

Josiah - I should have checked the-odin.com first! 

Sounds like DNA is pretty hardy. So for check cells: 1) Swab check with sterile swab, 2) Put swab in small tube with buffer (or as Mackenzie suggests ethanol) and 3) Ship in padded envelope. About it?

Thanks

Bryan 


     First I would say don't spend $60 on that kit. We have much better prices http://the-odin.com. Any sterile swab will do, you can find some pretty inexpensively on Amazon.

You can probably get away with storing the cells in water. 50mM NaOH 50mM TE is probably best but you can probably get away with 50mM NaOH or 50mM Tris or TE or most any buffer. The spontaneous hydrolysis half-life of DNA is something like 50,000 years so you are pretty much only worried about DNases, even so, the chances that they chop up your gene of interest(PTC) in all the genomes is small.

Josiah

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