Effect of Superparamagnetic Particles in Agarose Gels

Detection of DNA in agarose gels.

Nucleic acids that have been subjected to electrophoresis through agarose gels may be detected by staining and visualized by illumination with 300-nm UV light. Methods for staining and visualization of DNA using either ethidium bromide or SYBR Gold are described here. The most convenient and commonly used method to visualize DNA in agarose gels is staining with the fluorescent dye ethidium brom...

SDS agarose gels for analysis of proteins.

A new agarose-based protein electrophoresis gel system is described. The system consists of a highly resolving agarose, MetaPhor XR (FMC BioProducts, Rockland, ME, USA) dissolved in urea and TBE buffer and a stacking gel composed of a high gel-strength agarose, SeaKem Gold (FMC BioProducts). TBE containing sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) is used as electrophoresis buffer. The disadvantages of trad...

Multifunctional superparamagnetic Janus particles.

In this study, we report the microfluidic-based synthesis of a multifunctional Janus hydrogel particle with anisotropic superparamagnetic properties and chemical composition for the bottom-up assembly of hydrogel superstructures. In a uniform magnetic field, the resulting Janus magnetic particles fabricated in the present method exhibit chainlike or meshlike superstructure forms, the complexity...

Recovering DNA from agarose gels with pumice.

Apolipoprotein E genotyping on agarose gels.

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