Cloning Mammalian Cells with the Agarose Method
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... agarose addition, we found it was possible to rapidly punch out cell clones with sterile truncated pipet...from a 10 cm dish in 15- 20 minutes- a far more rapid pace than using cloning rings. A picture of a 60...only warm but not hot- and still liquid- it is rapidly poured onto the middle of the plate, where it immediately...and partially dislodged from the agarose plug by rapid pipetting, as shown in the YouTube video. Before... appear to be yielding well-spaced clones. For rapidly growing cells we sometimes use TPP peelaway T-75...drop of serum to each well in the 48-well plate; rapidly growing cells such as HEK and CHO do not seem to...technique should be useful to scientists who wish to rapidly isolate individual cell clones with different expression...