Syngene has announced that the company’s gel documentation system is being used at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the USA to image gels quickly and safely. Researchers in the Department of Biological Engineering regularly use a Syngene gel documentation system to visualise, quantify and record images of DNA on 1D agarose gels stained with SYBR Safe from Invitrogen.
Dr Natalie Kuldell, an instructor in the Department of Biological Engineering, commented: “We wanted to be able to visualise and record gels stained with SYBR Safe because it is less hazardous than ethidium bromide. To do this we needed imaging equipment that is more advanced than the Polaroid camera we
were using, so in 2008 we installed a Syngene gel documentation system.”
Dr Kuldell continued: “We now use the Syngene imager regularly to teach our students how to visualise and quantify DNA. They can set up and produce an image of their gels very quickly, and can also upload their images to the web, which means we can compare results from year to year. I would recommend a Syngene gel documentation system for use by students as it is robust and easy to use.”