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werner@aecom.yu.edu (Craig Werner) writes:
>In article <13854@boulder.Colorado.EDU>, eesnyder@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Eric E. Snyder) writes:
>> In article <1030@uwm.edu> stevelee@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (The Anti-Theist Named Steve) writes:
>> 
>> Ok, net people, just how dangerous is ethidium bromide?  I get shit in the 
>> lab constantly for slopping my gel buffers all over the place.... 
>
>	Yes, it's carcinogenic.  Yes, it makes you glow in the dark. Yes,
>it breaks down over a period of time in the environment.

I had a lover who was a graduate student in toxicology once.  His
advisor (to him) was the embodiment of evil (as Theodore Strelesky's
was to him, I imagine).  He always had plans to exact his revenge
by putting Ethidium Br in his advisor's coffee.  It would be a
while before he got cancer, and it would be the perfect cover up,
since no one is going to investigate the cause of the cancer, and
anyone in a biolab/chemlab is exposed to enough nasties.

I was told by another grad student (as an undergrad) that the
ability of Ethidium Br to intercalate between base pairs of DNA
was not enough to explain how potent a carcinogen it was.  This
was in 1983.
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