10/13 Lab (cont'd)

For our first plate that went through the CV Assay, it had dried overnight and was ready to have acetic acid solubilize it. Baylee used 30% acetic acid and filled each well plate with 130 microliters of this acid. We waited 15 minutes, then she transferred 125 microliters of each sample from the original well plate to a new plate. Then we had to wait for a few days for that to dry.

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