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recover old transformed DH5 - (May/05/2012 )

Does anyone knows how to recover transformed DH5 from an old plate kept at 4C?

-claudia-

If there are still viable cells, then restreak on a new plate. If not, you can miniprep the dead colonies and get small amounts of plasmid, which can be re-transformed.

-phage434-