Sometimes you want to collect samples in places that are hard to get to, or get out of. Sometimes those places are hot. Sometimes the people collecting your samples are not you, and they don’t have a lot of training. Sometimes there isn’t a freezer nearby. Or even electricity. Does this mean you can’t get nucleic acid samples from these places? Of course not. Here’s what Twitter had to say about this issue:
[View the story “Storing nucleic acids for ~ a week w/o a freezer” on Storify]

-jct

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