That's kind of epic that you managed to pull that off in a home setup. How exactly did you manage to run the gel and all? Did you buy a gelbox/agarose/dye etc too?
The linked article in the patent comment talks about running a gel to confirm extraction which is what I was referring to
Thanks! I skimmed but noticed that they used the rapid kit - sorry!
We used the rapid kit and also a gelbox / agarose.
Did you end up buying everything? I'd be curious to know how much it cost overall if you'd be willing to share. While most of my time has been in well stocked academic labs or shared startup lab space, I did spend some time working out of a bio hacker space and I'm always curious how cost efficiently people can wrangle together enough otherwise expensive kit to run an experiment in an odd setup. Did you end up with a lot of extra agarose etc or were you able to resell the leftovers and the used kit? Super cool stuff.
In total it was about $3k. So not cheap, but also not a real lab budget by any means.