Though efficient, such an approach is limited by the fact that it essentially
occurs in a test tube.
Not exact matches
For example, would you take a pill (or support legislation to put it
in our water supply) that does away with sexual desire and then have all reproduction
occur by «
test tubes» or cloning?
De Lange cautions that they still need to demonstrate that what they see
in their
test tube studies
occurs in living cells.
«The chemistry of cells, unlike more traditional chemistry
in test tubes, is highly dependent on where a chemical reaction is
occurring,» said Christine Payne, an associate professor
in the Georgia Tech School of Chemistry and Biochemistry and one of the paper's senior authors.
A common problem
in constructing a computer
in a
test tube is that it is hard to control which interactions among molecules
occur.
Preclinical
testing of experimental drugs,
in the
test tube or
in animals, that
occurs before trials
in humans may be carried out.