Safe-Red

Product Description

Safe-Red™ is a new and safe nucleic acid stain for the visualization of nucleic acids in agarose and polyacrylamide gels. This dye eliminates the need for toxic Ethidium Bromide (EtBr, a potent mutagen), commonly used in gel electrophoresis.

Features

• Convenient: Safe-Red is provided as a 6X loading dye, and is mixed directly with samples before gel loading. Inert tracking dye is included to monitor gel progress.
• Easy to Use: View and document your results as you would with EtBr staining. Safe-Red™ can be excited with UV light, and has maximum emission at 630 nm.
• Safe: Non-carcinogenic.
• Sensitive: Detect as little as 0.3 – 0.8 ng of DNA per gel band.
• Superior: EtBr is known to cause strand breaks and nicks in DNA. Using Safe-Red™ minimizes such damage, yielding higher transformation rates and lower mutation rates verses EtBr.

Performance Data

Fig.1 Safe-Red is more sensitive than EtBr. Two-fold serial dilution of abm's 1kb Plus OptiDNA Marker was visualized using Safe-Red and EtBr under the same conditions (%1 agarose gel in TAE Buffer, UV Illumination).

Fig.2 Absorbtion and Emission Spectrum for Safe-Red.