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[–] ligase36 | 3 points | link

We ran this protocol in our community lab last month. Two of five transformations failed until we dropped the heat shock to 42 s. Worth adding a note.

[–] primer53 | 5 points | link

Biosafety take: none of this is a problem at BSL-1 with non-pathogenic chassis. The failure mode in community labs is almost never the organism, it is the chemical waste.

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