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1School of Medical and Molecular Biosciences, Faculty of Science,University of Technology, Sydney, 2Centre for Health Technologies, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology,University of Technology, Sydney, 3The Sydney Head and Neck Cancer Institute, Sydney Cancer Centre,Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
Chapters
- 00:05Title
- 01:50Small RNA Isolation from Serum
- 03:56RNA Resuspension into solution
- 04:38Results: Marked Improvements on the Traditional Chomczynski Method
- 06:08Conclusion
This protocol describes a method for extracting small RNAs from human serum. We have used this method to isolate microRNAs from cancer serum for use in DNA arrays and also singleplex quantitative PCR. The protocol utilizes phenol and guanidinium thiocyanate reagents with modifications to yield high quality RNA.
