What is a Cell Culture?
A cell culture is a way to grow and maintain cells outside of a body, usually within a cell incubator. In this process, plant or animal cells are removed from tissues, and with the proper nutrients and conditions, they will grow in specially designed containers. Researchers must compute the correct temperature, humidity, and how best to keep a cell culture free of contaminants in order to keep the culture living. Tissue and organ cultures are matter-of-fact science today, but the progress of cell cultures has been a long time coming. They first appeared in the mid-1950’s with animal cloning, which produced the first engineered tadpole. Generally cell cultures are grown in glass—in vitro. Of course, growing a culture can start with a single cell, similar to growing a fungus or fostering a bacterium. The cells divide, change their size, and can continue to thrive until one of the needed elements is missing. A cell culture batch typically contains cells of one kind, although two industrie
