And the InvivoGen ‘Mycoplasma Horror Story’ winner is… 🥁 🥁 🥁 Titled: "Mycoplasma: A malevolent force" Congratulations, you will be receiving a MycoStrip 10-test kit! A huge thanks to all respondents for their chilling tales. I devilishly consumed your stories and was utterly spooked by the real-life horrors of mycoplasma contamination in cell culture! All submissions will be awarded a 15% discount code. Our brave winner has generously given us permission to share their spine-tingling mycoplasma horror story for you all to enjoy! So, without further ado here it is! “On a dark and stormy night, I toiled in my laboratory, seeking to perfect my cell culture. Unbeknownst to me, a malevolent force, mycoplasma contamination, stirred in the shadows. It insidiously infiltrated my precious cell cultures, causing them to behave erratically. Months of work were sacrificed and went to doom, leaving me forever haunted by the lurking specter of contamination on that fateful night. For I, bewildered by the eerie transformation, conducted frantic rituals to banish the contamination, invoking sterilization and antibiotics (Primocin). After a relentless battle between science and the supernatural, the contamination was vanquished, and my cell cultures were saved” So, what’s the real moral of the story? MycoStrip is the lantern in your darkest hour - an easy, rapid, and convenient solution to detect mycoplasma contamination. And fear not, if mycoplasma ever lurks in your lab, you can easily vanquish it with InvivoGen’s anti-mycoplasma reagents: Plasmocin® - Mycoplasma Elimination Reagent or Plasmocure™ - Mycoplasma Elimination Reagent. #HappyHalloween #MycoplasmaHorrorStory #HalloweenTreat #MycoplasmaDetection #WittyScientists #LabWin Millennium Science
