Backup Your DNA Samples
After all the painstaking work of recruiting study participants, taking their blood samples, extracting the DNA, and storing the samples in a freezer, did you think about splitting the samples and keeping one set offsite? What about emergency power backup systems?
The UNLV Biotechnology Center experienced a 36-minute power outage that could have taken down the entire center and caused a disruption in experiments except that their backup “instrumentation-grade” power protection system kicked into gear. One specific experiment involved mitochondrial DNA analysis that, if interrupted, would have resulted in lost samples and weeks of delay.
Walter Goldstein, coordinator of the UNLV Biotechnology Center:
Any lab running sensitive instrumentation needs to understand that this level of protection is not a luxury, it’s a requirement to ensure the viability of research conducted’.
To rely on standard surge protectors shows poor judgment and, in my opinion, is just plain foolish.
UNLV Biotechnology Center relies on Franek Technologies.
Tags: power outage, lab, laboratories, dna, genetics, genes, genome, experiments
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