Mason-Dixon line in the lab
Posted by attilachordash on June 26, 2008
Left side: QIAamp DNA Mini Kit for 250 DNA preps ($556.00) for purification of genomic, mitochondrial, bacterial, parasite, or viral DNA
Right side: RNeasy Mini Kit (50) for purification of up to 100 ug total RNA from animal cells or tissues, yeast, or bacteria ($227.00)
tharris said
Kits are a crutch. Cs-Cl and PAGE all the way.
Thomas said
I don’t understand -give me a clue.
Mr. Gunn said
Yeah, kits are so lame. We should all be extracting and purifying our restriction enzymes and recrystallizing our reagents out of spent culture media. We should also all be soldering our own motherboards and coding our own OSes. Who needs consistency and standards?
Oki said
Wow, so close!? What if you spill your RNaseA? Does that spark the civil war?
Jim H said
Hey, Those kits are all made in Maryland, baby. The “Free State” and boundary of the Mason-Dixon line.