Tissue culture is defined as the propagation of plant and animal cells through the placement of small amounts of tissue in an artificial environment. Given the appropriate conditions, most kinds of plant and animal cells will live, even multiply and...

For a variety of purposes, plant cells, tissues, organs, and whole plants can be grown in labware containing a medium composed of defined molecules. Tissue culture media provide water, minerals, vitamins, hormones, carbon sources, and antibiotics...

Tissue culture involves growing cells (see CELL) taken from multicellular animals (rather than just cultivating single-celled animals) in vitro in the laboratory. While there is little to be gained from such studies of a psychological or behavioural...

Tissue culture is the growth of tissues and/or cells separate from the organism. This is typically facilitated via use of a liquid, semi-solid, or solid growth media, such as broth or agar. Tissue culture commonly refers to the culture of animal cells...

LAB CONSUMER COVER STORY Technician, know the cells! Like most researchers, you probably hate tissue culture work. But, if such 'trivialities' as experimental quality and reproducibility are important to you, then you and your cells will need to come to an...

Agricultural Research Service horticulturist Ingrid M. Fordham has developed a new cornstarch-based gelling mixture for tissue-culturing plants. The mixture is a combination of cornstarch and the gellan gum, Gelrite. Tests show that the mixture outperforms and costs less than the more commonly used gelling...

Adam Zaretsky once spent 48 hours playing Engelbert Humperdincks's "Greatest Hits" to a dish of E.coli bacteria to determine whether vibrations or sounds influenced bacterial growth. Watching the bacteria's antibiotic production increase, Zaretsky decided that perhaps even cells were annoyed by constant subjection to "loud,...

Adam Zaretsky once spent 48 hours playing Engelbert Humperdincks's "Greatest Hits" to a dish of E.coli bacteria to determine whether vibrations or sounds influenced bacterial growth. Watching the bacteria's antibiotic production increase, Zaretsky decided that perhaps even cells were annoyed by constant subjection to "loud,...