Re: UV hood vs Flow Hood

On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 1:47 PM, kingjacob <kingjacob@gmail.com> wrote:
> Were these just hoods with UV lights or did they also have flow? I guess it
> could work to keep the workspace sterile while you aren't using it, but I
> always bleach everything before I get started so its a tad redundant.  I
> guess It depends what you are working with, but if you are doing synbio
> where you usually dont want mutations, i'd keep the UV away.
>

I asked the guy if it was laminar flow and he said it was UV hood to
prevent cross-contamination for their RNA work. The hood was a large
clear chamber able to fit on a normal lab workbench. They have the
wall mounted flow hoods for other jobs like cell culture.

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