Save Time and Money by Making Your Own Competent Cells
Type
Blog Post
Published
Jan. 28, 2014, 3:10 p.m.
...if you're transforming a plasmid with ampicillin resistance. After a plasmid is introduced to bacteria... library or an especially low concentration of plasmid), you will benefit from purchasing competent cells...survivalTM, and Stbl3TM.
How to transform your plasmid DNA
If you decided to use commercial competent ...negative control (plate your cells without adding plasmid) to make sure you don’t have contamination.
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Also conduct a positive control (test a plasmid that transforms well in other competent cells) to ensure...