From owner-drosophila@net.bio.net Sun Mar 10 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!bcm.tmc.edu!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!world!news.bu.edu!transfer.stratus.com!news3.near.net!yale!news.ycc.yale.edu!news From: Junhyong Kim Newsgroups: bionet.drosophila Subject: Re: X-gal staining live larvae Date: 11 Mar 1996 21:17:22 GMT Organization: Yale University Lines: 6 Message-ID: <4i2592$1ci@news.ycc.yale.edu> References: <3140B381.3EC@umich.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: jkim.biology.yale.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1 (Macintosh; U; PPC) To: kgolden@umich.edu X-URL: news:3140B381.3EC@umich.edu One of the postdoc (Y-K Kim) in the lab that I was in used to do that. He simply added Xgal to Carolina's instant medium. I'm afraid I don't know what concentrations that he was using. I was amazed that it worked. He is now working in Lee Ehrman's lab (914)- 251-6671. .