From owner-celegans@net.bio.net Wed Dec 03 22:00:00 1997 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: Marie-Anne Felix Newsgroups: bionet.celegans Subject: EMS and NaOH Date: 4 Dec 1997 08:09:12 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 26 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: wmorgan@acs.wooster.edu Distribution: world Message-ID: <666kj8$cqf@net.bio.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net EMS is commonly destroyed by treating it with NaOH. Does anyone know where this protocol comes from and what is the proof that NaOH destroys EMS? Thanks, Marie-Anne Felix _________________________________________________________________________ Marie-Anne Felix Institut Jacques Monod, Tour 43 2 place Jussieu 75251 Paris Cedex 05, France Tel: +33-1-44-27-40-88 Fax: +33-1-44-27-52-65 (For rapid delivery and packages, add: 5e etage, couloir 43-42) _________________________________________________________________________ .