You could send an email and/or visit your local college or university's
chemistry or biology department and see if someone will give or let you
borrow one. I'm willing to bet that they would be willing to donate all the
reagents.
On 6/26/09 1:21 PM, "aria johnson" <ariajohnson from gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Check this website out for simple tank
>http://www.science-projects.com/GE/HorizChamber.htm> not sure whether agar will give you the resolution you need for the
> exercise.
> Will you use EtBr and UV for visualization? Im not sure what age is 6th form
> but you may want to monitor the EtBr step or find an alternate way
> to visualize your pcr product.
> take care
> aj
>> On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 6:23 AM, mccraight <mccraight from biddulph.staffs.sch.uk>> wrote:
>>> Hi, I am a Lab technician in a school,and we need an electophoresis tank to
>> enable our 6th for students to follow a new forensic science course. Money
>> in school is very limited,so I am hoping to make one. Would it be possible
>> for you to send me details on how to construct a simple tank,and whether
>> ordinary agar could be used instead of agarose as this would also cut costs.
>>>> Kind Regards
>>>> Steph McCraight
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