DIY DNA Ladders from Penn State University
Type
Blog Post
... Commercial Plasmid Prep Kit
Amount
1000 Lanes
1000 Lanes
1000 Lanes
Cost
$200-$500
<$10
$20-30
...molecular weight ladders were recently deposited with Addgene. A team of undergraduate students led by Dr. Song...convenient, commercial ladders cost between $200-$500 for 1000 lanes worth of ladder. The Penn State ladders are...plasmid prep protocol, it cost less than $10 to make 1000 lanes worth of the 100 bp or the 1 kb ladder. Using...pPSU1 and the pPSU2 plasmids are available from Addgene.
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