Re: [DIYbio] Gel Red questions

On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 03:19:23PM -0400, Avery louie wrote:
> Also EtBr requires UV to view- gelgreen can be excited with a few blue
> LEDs, making it cheaper up front if you want to run a gel.

EtBr is overdemonized. Many reagents chemists used to work with
make it look like weak mouthwash.

Anything detecting DNA will likely intercalate, and do
pi-pi complex things in order to be visible, so it
almost certainly has an impact on base reading/frame shift,
and hence more or less mutagenic.

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