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Can't You Just Use a Label Maker?

May 02, 2007

The new edition of Cold Spring Harbor Protocols offers a couple of free-access methods. One protocol describes growing cells in a particular medium that marks the cells with nitrogen-15 so that they can be distinguished from other cells by mass spec. Another protocol describes how to tag DNA probes with visibly different fluorescent markers.

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