Whole Blood Cells

Dawn Obermoeller, Ambion, Inc. Ambion's RiboPure™-Blood procedure overcomes the challenges involved in isolating intact RNA from whole blood. In the past, researchers typically had to isolate white blood cells (WBC) from whole blood prior to RNA isolation to deal with the plethora of contaminants...

Blood collection tubes with anticoagulant, either heparin, K3EDTA, or K2EDTA tubes 12 x 75 mm round-bottom polystyrene tubes (e.g., Thermo Scientific Samco 12 x 75 mm Disposable Culture Tubes, Cat. No. 12-007S) Flow cytometry staining buffer (e.g.