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Storing bacteria in a dry, room temperature long-term storage whilst maintaining viability
Lyophilization, aka freeze-drying, is probably the go-to method of microbial preservation without the need for cold storage. It's how bacterial strains purchased from commercial culture collections ...
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Can a person have different sex at cellular level?
Every organism(sexually reproducing) starts life from a single cell zygote formed by union of sperm and ovum.
Since all cells are formed by mitotic divisions and differentiation of the zygote, the ...
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Storing bacteria in a dry, room temperature long-term storage whilst maintaining viability
The answer to this strongly depends on the species of bacterium you are working with.
The only ones that I know of that are capable of withstanding any dehydration process are those that form spores. ...
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How come SSBPs in RPA don't bind primers?
From a 1994 review of E.coli single-stranded binding protein (SSBP) in Annual Reviews of Biochemistry, it would appear that at least 35 nucleotides (nt) of single-stranded DNA are required for binding ...
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