It depends on how hard you centrifuge them. For larger and more complex cells, you centrifuge at a lower speed/force, and they tend to settle faster anyway. But for smaller, hard-walled, anucleic cells like bacteria and archaea, you can often centrifuge at full power and no harm done.
Bluntly, if you centrifuge a wall-less oocyte at 13,000rpm in a microcentrifuge then yes, you'll probably end up with cell extract. :)
On 18 February 2020 00:11:07 GMT+00:00, Experiments in prebiotic chemistry <jsprat396@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,I have a question about centrifugation. I was wondering, if you centrifuge living cells, let's say oocytes for example, and you end up with a cell extract, wouldn't that cell extract be considered to be dead? Doesn't centrifugation kill a living cell?
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