Media For Freezing Bacterial Cultures

Sterile, ready-to-use cryopreservation media for long-term storage of bacterial cultures is offered in a storage box with 25, 2 ml-cryotubes. Each cryotube contains a 0.5 ml aliquot of LB broth (Miller formulation) with 30% glycerol. The cryotubes offer a labeling area and easy to read volume markings. The user adds 1.0 ml of culture, mixes and stores at 㭂 C. Viability of frozen cultures is typically 85%.