Formamide destabilizes nucleic acid duplexes and may be used, typically, at a concentration of 50%, in hybridization protocols requiring lower hybridization temperatures.
Formamide may be used as a solvent and a reducing agent in the preparation of anisotropic silver nanoparticles from silver perchlorate.[1]
Applied and environmental microbiology, 74(24), 7620-7628 (2008-10-14)
Culture-independent (PCR with Crenarchaeota-specific primers and subsequent denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis) and culture-dependent approaches were used to study the diversity of Crenarchaeota in terrestrial hot springs of the Kamchatka Peninsula and the Lake Baikal region (Russia) and of Iceland. Among
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