A Syngene gel-documentation system is being used at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US to image gels quickly and safely.
Researchers in the Department of Biological Engineering at MIT are regularly using a Syngene gel documentation system to accurately visualise, quantify and record images of DNA on 1D agarose gels fluorescently stained with SYBR Safe from Invitrogen.
'We wanted to be able to visualise gels stained with SYBR Safe because it is less hazardous than Ethidium bromide, as well as record the results,' said Dr Natalie Kuldell, an instructor in the Department of Biological Engineering.
'To do this we needed imaging equipment which was more advanced than the Polaroid camera we were using so in 2008 we installed a Syngene gel doc system,' she added.
'We now use the Syngene imager regularly to teach our students how to visualise and quantify DNA,' she said.
'Students can also conveniently upload their images to the web, which means we can compare results from year to year,' Kuldell said.
