Combating Phage Rage
Life Technologies' MAX Efficiency DH5a Competent Cells now guard against infection by bacteriophage T5 In the past, a researcher may have lost an Escherichia coli culture to a phage infection and just chalked it up to a failed transformation or inoculation. According to Heather Lustig, marketing manager for Life Technologies of Rockville, Md., bacteriophage contamination didn't really become a major concern until genome centers began sequencing large numbers of clones in parallel. Whereas good
Oct 1, 2000
![]() Life Technologies' MAX Efficiency DH5a Competent Cells now guard against infection by bacteriophage T5 |
Product development began when scientists at Life Technologies isolated a...
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