DNA Isolation

Short-Term, Substantial Yields Possible with New Technique

Published in Blood Weekly, February 22nd, 2001

by Michael Greer, staff medical writer -- Researchers writing in the Annals of Epidemiology described how their efforts to improve the yield of usable DNA from stored blood suggests that good yields of high quality DNA are possible after seven days storage at both relatively warm and cryogenic temperatures.

H.J. Schunemann and colleagues at the State University of New York recently conducted a study to "investigate the use of a simple DNA isolation technique for application in epidemiologic studies." The researchers recruited six volunteers for their study, using a "modified single tube DNA isolation technique" to process blood samples.

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