Fact sheet for Ambion® Cells-to-Ct™ Kits new green features - compared to traditional RNA Extraction methods that contain harmful solvents such as Mercaptoethanol—which can be fatal.
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Fact Sheet
Ambion® Cells-to-Ct™ Kits
Comparison to Traditional RNA Extraction Methods
Introduction • Mercaptoethanol—may be fatal
Life Technologies is committed when absorbed through the skin
to designing products with the • Guanidine thiocyanate—causes
environment in mind—it’s one more irritation and is harmful if
step toward a smaller footprint. This swallowed or inhaled
fact sheet provides the rationale • Guanidine hydrochloride—causes
Green Benefits behind the environmental claims that irritation and is harmful if
• Less use of hazardous materials use of this product results in reduced swallowed or inhaled
• Less hazardous waste disposal exposure to hazardous material and
generates less waste than comparable The use of Cells-to-Ct™ systems
• Less use of plastic consumables
products. The use of Ambion® Cells- eliminates the need to use any of the
• Less plastic waste disposal to-Ct™ kits eliminates the need to use hazardous solvents mentioned above.
hazardous solvents and requires far
less plastic consumables from sample Please review the MSDS for the
preparation to final analysis. Cells-to-Ct™ kits at http://www3.
appliedbiosystems.com/sup/msds/
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Ambion® Cells-to-Ct™ kits include
reagents and enzyme mixtures Less Waste
for reverse transcription (RT) and Traditional methodologies for RNA
real-time PCR directly from cultured extraction require multiple steps
cell lysates, without the need for a for RNA extraction and clean-up,
separate RNA isolation step. requiring the use of multiple
disposable tubes, vials, pipettes, and
Green Features pipette tips. Cells-to-Ct™ kits require
Less Hazardous fewer plastic consumables than
Traditional RNA extraction protocols traditional technologies (Figure 1). A
require clean-up with the use of comparison of Cells-to-Ct™ kits with
hazardous reagents such as: traditional technology showed that
139 g of plastic waste (tubes, pipettes,
• Ethanol—highly flammable and pipette tips) was generated with
causes systemic toxicity traditional RNA extraction, compared
to 7 g for Cells-to-Ct™ kits (Table 1).