Several other HS-601 satellites also died in orbit for the same reason-- tin whiskers growing inside a power relay-- costing their owners (or their insurance companies) hundreds of millions of dollars in losses. I first learned about tin whiskers and tin pest in 2005, early in my study ...
A clonogenic assay was performed by plating cells after irradiation treatment with a delay of 4 h (Delayed Plating or DP) to allow repair processes [93], after which the cells were washed twice with 1× DPBS to remove non-internalized NPs and harvested with TrypLE™ Express (Gibco) to ...