We went to split our cells from our cell culture to grow cells for experimentation on thursday. Unfortunately, when we took our incubated cells that were growing in the medium out of the incubator, the cells were contaminated with mold. We had to discard the cells. We believe the contamination came from the oven itself as the water pan in the incubator seemed to be the source of contamination. We bleached the cells to kill them all and disposed of them. We have to start again from scratch on thursday after the incubator all its parts are cleaned and autoclaved in a hot oven. This will set us back a week and we won't be able to use real cells in our experiment for about another week or so.
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