Anchorage Independent Transformation Assay
Do No HarmColony counting in soft agar is the classic assay for selecting metastatic cells. It has two problems, 1) cells can be damaged by exposing them to temperatures at and above the 40 C melting temperature of agar, 2) it can take three weeks to grow colonies large enough to count. Damaged or heat stressed cells can skew your results, especially genomics, proteomics or metabolomics analyses. Colony counting is too imprecise to wait around three weeks. Do the Oppositepoly(2,3)Glucose...