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Cell Culture: the process by which cells are grown under controlled conditions, generally outside of their natural environment. Cell culture conditions can vary for each cell type, but artificial environments consist of a suitable vessel with substrate or medium that supplies the essential nutrients (amino acids, carbohydrates, vitamins, minerals), growth factors, hormones, and gases (CO2, O2), and regulates the physio-chemical environment.
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FEB 14, 2016Clinical & Molecular DX
In the clinical setting, wound infections can significantly delay recovery time and even become life threatening. Early ...FEB 04, 2016Neuroscience
Everyone has seen the ad from the 80’s with a frying pan and an egg, “This is your brain on drugs” and ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimJAN 30, 2016Cell & Molecular Biology
To decide whether and where to move in the body, cells need to read chemical signals in their environment—and they ...Written By: Futurity (futurity.org)JAN 29, 2016Health & Medicine
A drug used to treat high blood pressure could be the answer to treating and preventing Alzheimer’s disease. Alzhe ...Written By: Julianne ChiaetJAN 24, 2016Microbiology
Researchers at UC San Diego are perfecting a new technique to determine antibiotic susceptibility. Time is of the ...Written By: Kerry EvansDEC 06, 2015Microbiology
New research from the University of Pennsylvania suggests that herpesviruses might play a role in neurological disorders ...Written By: Kerry EvansDEC 01, 2015Clinical & Molecular DX
Injury, cell death, and disease to the nerve cells in the eye can cause irreversible vision loss and blindness. But rese ...NOV 19, 2015Health & Medicine
Scientists have known for a while that taking low daily doses of aspirin decreases the odds of a person having a heart a ...Written By: Julianne ChiaetNOV 17, 2015Clinical & Molecular DX
In addition to ward off scurvy, is vitamin C also able to kill off cancer cells? That’s the latest claim from the ...OCT 16, 2015Microbiology
This isn’t the first time I’ve written about Ebola (and it probably won’t be the last). Recently ...Written By: Kerry EvansOCT 12, 2015Microbiology
Bacteria have the capacity to produce numerous substances for commercial and industrial applications. Despite this ...Written By: Kerry EvansOCT 02, 2015Microbiology
A research team at Merck (accidentally) uncovered a new antibacterial target - a riboswitch important for riboflavin (vi ...Written By: Kerry EvansSEP 25, 2015Genetics & Genomics
To protect people from infectious disease, clinicians can target pathogens and parasites with medicines such as antibiot ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderSEP 19, 2015Neuroscience
The abnormal behavior of two genes (BDNF and DTNBP1) is related to the underlying cause of schizophrenia, providing a ne ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderSEP 16, 2015Cell & Molecular Biology
There are several risk factors that have been identified for breast cancer including age, reproductive history, hormones ...Written By: Sarah HertrichSEP 03, 2015Genetics & Genomics
The thousands of different bacteria living in our intestinal tract – our microbiome – have a major impact on ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAUG 24, 2015Genetics & Genomics
The immune system not only responds to infections and other potentially problematic abnormalities in the body. It also c ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAUG 13, 2015Microbiology
Escherichia coli was first recognized as a possible foodborne pathogen in 1975 in a California hospital with a patient e ...Written By: Sarah HertrichAUG 05, 2015Genetics & Genomics
While skeletal muscle is abundant in the human body, it been difficult for researchers to derive muscle cells from precu ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUL 22, 2015Genetics & Genomics
When people get sick or hurt, they lose huge numbers of cells. For example, as pointed out in an article in Futurity, "T ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUL 15, 2015Health & Medicine
Kale, the current leafy green of choice for many health-savvy people in the United States, could potentially be under sc ...Written By: Kara MarkerJUL 10, 2015Genetics & Genomics
In discovering that the three-dimensional shape of the cerebral cortex strongly correlates with ancestral background, re ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUN 19, 2015Plants & Animals
Plants and trees have often been used to treat diseases, in fact in ancient cultures, plants, roots, trees and other nat ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimJUN 01, 2015Neuroscience
There are a few essential ways to understand the neural workings of the human brain. One is to painstakingly map the cir ...Written By: Will Hector
FEB 14, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
In the clinical setting, wound infections can significantly delay recovery time and even become life threatening. Early
...
FEB 04, 2016
Neuroscience
Everyone has seen the ad from the 80’s with a frying pan and an egg, “This is your brain on drugs” and
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
JAN 30, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
To decide whether and where to move in the body, cells need to read chemical signals in their environment—and they
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
JAN 29, 2016
Health & Medicine
A drug used to treat high blood pressure could be the answer to treating and preventing Alzheimer’s disease. Alzhe
...
Written By:
Julianne Chiaet
JAN 24, 2016
Microbiology
Researchers at UC San Diego are perfecting a new technique to determine antibiotic susceptibility. Time is of the
...
Written By:
Kerry Evans
DEC 06, 2015
Microbiology
New research from the University of Pennsylvania suggests that herpesviruses might play a role in neurological disorders
...
Written By:
Kerry Evans
DEC 01, 2015
Clinical & Molecular DX
Injury, cell death, and disease to the nerve cells in the eye can cause irreversible vision loss and blindness. But rese
...
NOV 19, 2015
Health & Medicine
Scientists have known for a while that taking low daily doses of aspirin decreases the odds of a person having a heart a
...
Written By:
Julianne Chiaet
NOV 17, 2015
Clinical & Molecular DX
In addition to ward off scurvy, is vitamin C also able to kill off cancer cells? That’s the latest claim from the
...
OCT 16, 2015
Microbiology
This isn’t the first time I’ve written about Ebola (and it probably won’t be the last). Recently
...
Written By:
Kerry Evans
OCT 12, 2015
Microbiology
Bacteria have the capacity to produce numerous substances for commercial and industrial applications. Despite this
...
Written By:
Kerry Evans
OCT 02, 2015
Microbiology
A research team at Merck (accidentally) uncovered a new antibacterial target - a riboswitch important for riboflavin (vi
...
Written By:
Kerry Evans
SEP 25, 2015
Genetics & Genomics
To protect people from infectious disease, clinicians can target pathogens and parasites with medicines such as antibiot
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
SEP 19, 2015
Neuroscience
The abnormal behavior of two genes (BDNF and DTNBP1) is related to the underlying cause of schizophrenia, providing a ne
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
SEP 16, 2015
Cell & Molecular Biology
There are several risk factors that have been identified for breast cancer including age, reproductive history, hormones
...
Written By:
Sarah Hertrich
SEP 03, 2015
Genetics & Genomics
The thousands of different bacteria living in our intestinal tract – our microbiome – have a major impact on
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
AUG 24, 2015
Genetics & Genomics
The immune system not only responds to infections and other potentially problematic abnormalities in the body. It also c
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
AUG 13, 2015
Microbiology
Escherichia coli was first recognized as a possible foodborne pathogen in 1975 in a California hospital with a patient e
...
Written By:
Sarah Hertrich
AUG 05, 2015
Genetics & Genomics
While skeletal muscle is abundant in the human body, it been difficult for researchers to derive muscle cells from precu
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUL 22, 2015
Genetics & Genomics
When people get sick or hurt, they lose huge numbers of cells. For example, as pointed out in an article in Futurity, "T
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUL 15, 2015
Health & Medicine
Kale, the current leafy green of choice for many health-savvy people in the United States, could potentially be under sc
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JUL 10, 2015
Genetics & Genomics
In discovering that the three-dimensional shape of the cerebral cortex strongly correlates with ancestral background, re
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUN 19, 2015
Plants & Animals
Plants and trees have often been used to treat diseases, in fact in ancient cultures, plants, roots, trees and other nat
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
JUN 01, 2015
Neuroscience
There are a few essential ways to understand the neural workings of the human brain. One is to painstakingly map the cir
...
Written By:
Will Hector