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Laboratory Help Upper-Year Courses Topic started by: micro on Sep 18, 2013



Title: Sterilizing Chemicals
Post by: micro on Sep 18, 2013
When washing cells after centrifugation and such, does the chemical buffer/wash need to be autoclaved first? Do you have to autoclave each chemical that you add to a cell pellet? Can't it decompose on autoclaving?


Title: Re: Sterilizing Chemicals
Post by: mikael on Sep 18, 2013
No, excessive autoclaving should be avoided as it will degrade some medium components.