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Topic: Cell Culture

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  Culture    Cell  
  American culture    Blood Cells  
  Different cultures    Human T cell  
  Cell Lung Cancer    Society and Culture  
  Fuel Cell    Cell Biology  
  Stem Cell    World Cultures  

 
 
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Miles Rhodes,
Wine Taster

A phage culture is diluted and samples of each dilution are mixed with host cells and plated onto the surface of agar medium in a thin layer of soft agar.
The cells were removed by filtration through Whatman 3MM chromatography paper and then ammonium sulfate was added to approximately 1 liter of the filtrated culture medium to give 60% saturation.
Sarah Kennedy,
Fashion Model

Trypsinized cells were passed through a syringe with a 20 gauge needle to make single-cell suspension, counted with a hemacytometer and plated in 50 ml tissue culture flasks at a density of4 x 103 cells/cm and cultured for 20 days by replacing the medium every 2 days.
Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder

Nurse culture: In the culture of plant cells, the growth of a cell or cells on a contiguous culture of different origin which in turn is in contact with the tissue culture medium.
Billie Kirgan,
Machinist

Cultures of human umbilical vein endothelial cells and umbilical artery smooth muscle cells were found to constitutively express alpha-S messenger RNA and protein.
Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist

This is a system of genetically modifying either bacteria cells or mammalian cells in tissue culture so that they include in their genome, the gene that directs the cell to make human growth hormone.
We are interested in the properties of pia-arachnoid cells in culture and their interactions with cell types that they normally come into contact with, including astrocytes and endothelial cells.
Stem-cells come from human embryos or from fetal tissue obtained from terminated pregnancies and have the ability to divide for indefinite periods in culture and to give rise to specialized cells.
David Rosenberg,
Dermatologist

Strongly adherent cells like Sua1B can also be trypsinised using standard cell culture protocols.
John Fielding,
CEO

The cells in this resource have been collected over the past three decades using strict diagnostic criteria and banked under the highest quality standards of cell culture.
Ben Werner,
Student Newspaper Editor

These cells are separated and maintained in a cell culture dish, thereby halting embryonic development towards creating an individual.
Zhang Xian Qian,
Ex-Olympic Swimmer

As the cells in the tissue culture grow and function, they will synthesize human growth hormone by the exact same process in the human pituitary.
 
 
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