laboratory safety
Ethidium bromide and safer dye choices still need care
Treat ethidium bromide as a mutagenic intercalator, and read the SDS for a dye sold as safer. Waste handling stays a local decision.
8 October 2026 · 11 min read
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laboratory safety
UV light on a transilluminator
Eye pain after a gel, a shield left up, and DNA that will not clone are different symptoms of the same lamp. The shield and the interlock are the controls.
8 October 2026 · 10 min read