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Dr Manish Kumar Dwivedi

Yes, I think so.

Lipofectamine reagents may be able to transfect multiple cell types with consistently high efficiency and ease of use.

Wilfried Banaba

Thanks Manish for your encouraging reply. I’ll try it and see its efficiency.

Carlota Roca Martinez

How was your experiment? Did It work?