...Different brands and lots of FBS can promote or inhibit transfection. Test a variety of brands and lots...time as the virus-mediated transduction. For some cell lines, transduction is optimized if the cells are...When the untransduced (negative control) cells have died and colonies are visible in the transduced wells...experiments. Workflow Timeline Day 0: Seed and transduce cells Day 2: Replace media with fresh media containing...to the media, as it can affect viability and transduction efficiency. Titer will vary between cell lines... are seeded the day before transduction. Note that in that case, polybrene should only be added at the...the time of viral transduction, and not during the cell seeding step. Procedure Before beginning a colony...