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Transfer day! 💕

Let's talk for a second about sodium hypochlorite, or it's diluted cousin, bleach!🧼

Bleach is one part used for surface sterilization to prep the exterior of the explant your Initiating to ward off unwanted organisms from contamination 🦠

Well we use it all the time, but do you know exactly how bleach works it's magic?🪄

Bleach rapidly dissociates (or breaks down) to form the highly reactive, hypochlorous acid 🧬

Once formed, hypochlorus acid will attack the amino acids that make up proteins 🥩

By doing this, the bleach alters the three-dimensional structure of the proteins

But why is this important? 🤔

A protein's structure is critical to its function, and when important proteins lose their shape cells can no longer survive 🪦

I.e. a lower susceptibility to contamination in culture! 🎉

Happy Sunday everybody! 🤓