Biological Preservatives

[J J Thompson]

What are the preservatives used to preserved or stored biological specimens? And in what concentration? In fact I will appreciate if any member in the forum help me out with full detail of what is biological preservatives. Thanks

[ChanelR]

Usually ethanol alcohol, at least 70%.

[Arete]

What sort of biological samples (museum specimens, tissue samples, buccal swabs, cell cultures etc etc etc)? What do you want them for (Sequencing, collections, allozymes, etc etc etc)?

 

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