Cleaver Scientific's electrophoresis kits introduce university students to practical agarose gel electrophoresis and its application in the size fractionation of DNA fragments during cloning.
The kits are designed to explain electrophoresis, which underpins many molecular biology techniques, including gene cloning.
Different-coloured electrophoretic dyes represent uncut and cleaved DNA vector and insert typically seen during cloning.
The dyes, along with the battery-powered low-voltage electrophoresis tank supplied, are entirely safe and migrate much faster than DNA, allowing electrophoresis to be completed well within the time normally allotted for practical lessons.
The kits are supplied with spotting pipettes and enough dyes, agarose and buffer for five electrophoresis runs.
They also include a detailed protocol to guide both the student and teacher through every step of the process, from casting an agarose gel to cutting and ligating the plasmid and insert vectors, followed by theoretical sections on DNA ligation, bacterial transformation and isolation, culminating in electrophoresis.
The gel tank is powered by just two PP3 batteries so is completely cost-effective as no expensive power supply is needed.
