[NHCOLL-L:4591] Tissues specimen in ethanol and DMSO-EDTA

[Carol Spencer]

Hi NH-Coll folks:

Restrictions in shipping ethanol and dangerous goods have led us to change
out practice, so that now we are sending most tissue samples in buffer
(DMSO-EDTA).

Does anybody know of any problems of transferring tissues originally in 95%
ethanol  or RNALater into DMSO buffer, in terms of quality of DNA for
sequencing?

We are also sending tissues originally in RNALater in DMSO-EDTA.

Any thoughts or experiences would be appreciated.

Cheers,
Carol Spencer

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Carol L. Spencer
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Museum of Vertebrate Zoology
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University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA 94720-3160
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