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Why are the bacteria of the StabyExpress™ kit electrocompetent bacteria and not chemical competent bacteria?

April 26, 2017bacteria chemical Competent electrocompetent kit stabyexpress™

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Why are the bacteria of the StabyExpress™ kit electrocompetent bacteria and not chemical competent bacteria?

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The transformation efficiency of electrocompetent bacteria is higher than the efficiency of chemical competent bacteria. This efficiency is particularly important during the cloning steps (electroporation in the CYS21 bacteria).