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Ethidium bromide is actually surprisingly not mutagenic

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/myth-ethidium-brom...



This seems very surprising for a molecule that intercalates DNA!


Well there is a cell membrane to negotiate with before reaching the dna.


And a nuclear membrane in eukaryotes as well.




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