From: invalid@kmitko.at.list.dot.pl   
      
   On 10 Oct 2018, Mad Scientist 72 wrote   
   (in article):   
      
   >   
   > Hello everybody, I am an amateur scientist. I replicate experiments in   
   > prebiotic chemistry at home, the results of which are posted on my YouTube   
   > channel. For the most part, I am able to replicate these experiments   
   > successfully according to the original experimental protocol. However, I have   
   > only chemical reagents and a UV/VIS spectrophotometer to analyze the results   
   > of each experiment. This becomes a problem when the products of the original   
   > experiment are measured in micrograms per liter, or other very minute   
   > quantities. I was wondering if there are labs which I could send my samples   
   > to which would analyze the results using HPLC, gas chromatography or other   
   > more sophisticated methods which I simply don't have at my disposal. For   
   > example, there are articles which discuss how the nucleotide base uracil can   
   > be made from b-alanine and urea. I have tried this myself with very poor   
   > results when it comes to determining which products were produced from the   
   > experiment. Any help that anyone here could provide would be greatly   
   > appreciated. Thanks a lot!   
   >   
   > J.G.   
      
   I am a researcher at university in Europe (though not a biochemist) and from   
   my point of view: it all depends on number of samples. University will gladly   
   sign a commercial contract to analyze samples, people at my institution do it   
   all the time; however, we would not bother with only a few samples - where I   
   work the official policy is we cannot take such jobs for less than ca. 1000$.   
   If you have very small number of samples, try to find a scientist who works   
   with the kind of substances you are, often they can run you samples along   
   with their regular analyses for free if the topic is interesting (this also   
   happens at my institution, but I don’t think it is allowed in strictly   
   commercial laboratories).   
      
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