![[propylene glycol supply] propylene glycol can replace ethanol for insect specimen preparation](/images/169963248837007.jpg)
according to it media website reports, on december 24, japan’s university of tokyo, kyoto university, and hyogo prefectural university announced a new discovery that immersing insect specimens in propylene glycol can preserve the genetic information in insects better. long.
researchers immersed insect feet in propylene glycol to preserve them and found that the dna of the feet could be preserved for one year without being damaged. this discovery expands the use of propylene glycol in natural science research.
