Day 10: Harvesting cells

 The cells that were used previously needed to be harvested for next week. We harvested them by using a cell lysis buffer made of Triton X1000 and Hepes. I scraped as many cells as possible from the plates in solution with the lysis buffer and placed them in the freezer.

 Next week we will be examining the proteins from these cells. Exciting!

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