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stability of lentiviral stock
Started by vashishths, May 18 2010 11:56 PM
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Posted 18 May 2010 - 11:56 PM
hi all, just joined this wonderful site....... anyone has an idea about how stable the viruses ....... Lentivirus derived from HIV are at different temperatures... at 4 degress at RT etc/
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Posted 17 June 2010 - 01:10 PM
vashishths, on May 19 2010, 09:56 AM, said:
hi all, just joined this wonderful site....... anyone has an idea about how stable the viruses ....... Lentivirus derived from HIV are at different temperatures... at 4 degress at RT etc/
Lentivirus is stored best at 4C when you will be using it in a short term, say 2 weeks
any longer than that I would say -20C
Keep in mind though that every freezing / thawing cycle reduces the potency by ~20% so be sure to prepare proper alliquots
