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=== Generating competent cells === | === Generating competent cells === | ||
| − | The competent cells are what the biobrick is to be 'put into' at the end of the process. The procedure is | + | The competent cells are what the biobrick is to be 'put into' at the end of the process. The procedure we followed is [http://wiki.london.hackspace.org.uk/w/images/2/2f/Hackspace_Workshop_Wednesday_Protocol.pdf here] |
Revision as of 14:41, 12 September 2012
Overview
UCL's igem team got in touch with us in May about a collaboration with their project to make a biobrick that could help to clean up plastic floating in the ocean. From August the biohackers have been working with them to develop a 'public biobrick' (ie. one developed outside of the traditional university or research lab). This biobrick contains antifreeze and mercuric reductase genes from the marine bacteria Oceanibulbus Indofilex.
Generating competent cells
The competent cells are what the biobrick is to be 'put into' at the end of the process. The procedure we followed is here