Sentences with phrase «calf serum by»
In the early 1980s, Eaves, the founding director of the British Columbia Cancer Agency's Terry Fox Laboratory, started buying up the best fetal calf serum by the bucket - full, bringing it to his lab, and rigorously testing it for its ability to support the growth of hematopoietic stem cells.
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The current soup — costly «fetal bovine serum,» or calf's blood — may soon be replaced by an inexpensive, plant - based substitute that offers a major advantage: It avoids using any animal - based products, satisfying the ethical concerns of some vegetarians.
A team of developmental biologists led by Hans Schöler and Karen Hübner at the University of Pennsylvania placed densely packed clusters of stem cells from mouse embryos in a petri dish, using fetal calf serum as a growth medium and adding a gene protein that turns green when germ cells form.
IVC in the presence of fetal calf serum (FCS) followed by embryo transfer reduced by half the capacity of the resulting blastocysts to implant in the uterus when compared to culture without FCS.