The BioTechniques Molecular Biology Forum brings bench scientists together in an online community to ask for and share advice regarding laboratory problems. This week’s highlighted question comes from the RNA Methods forum.
Q: I would like to extract RNA from plasma, beginning with blood collected in Paxgene RNA tubes. The kit is for extracting intracellular RNA from whole blood. Can I just spin the samples I have and use Trizol to extract RNA from the plasma?
A: You might try to pellet or concentrate the cells in the RNA preservative before…
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