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Whence fecal E. coli (et al.) if swallowing it is dangerous?
I don't know much about medicine, and I know even less about microbiology, but I understand that there are organisms in the lower gastrointestinal tract (and in feces) of a human, like Escherichia ...
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What would cause E. coli to change from filamentous growth to normal growth?
In my lab we've observed a phenomenon in which a culture of E. coli is found to shift from normal rod growth to filamentous growth and then back to normal rod growth again several times over the ...
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How long can E. coli stocks be stored at -20°C?
I'm volunteering for a biohacker lab - biocurious in Sunnyvale. The have a pretty good set of equipment - gel boxes, incubators, but they don't have a -80°C freezer yet.
I'd like to set up some ...
