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Homemade Spin Filter
Homemade Spin Filter
Materials
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§ GF/F glass fiber membrane filter (furnace at 500 C)
§ 2.0, 1.8 and 0.5ml of microcentrifuge tubes
§ 1000ul blue tip
§ Needle
§ forceps
§ bunsen burner
Procedures
1. Cut blue tip by three parts as picture below and the middle part of tip is not needed.
2. put the end part into the top part as picture below and insert this into the 1.8ml of
centrifuge tube. This will be used for crushing agarose gel. Put pieces of gel into the blue
tip and centrifuge it. Agarose gel will be crushed easily. If you use QG buffer(Qiagen),
you don't need to proceed this step.
5. if you worry about the contamination, burn GF/F glass filter in the furnace at 500 degree
C.
6. Fill the GF/F filter into 0.5ml tube shown picture as below.
7. 2.0ml tube can be used as well.
Note: if you press the filter too firm, you will need a long time for spin. Just use 5mm diameter of
filter for making column.