By growing cells in unrealistic liquids, scientists may have skewed results

Re:By growing cells in unrealistic liquids, scientists may h... by bsder on Thursday January 03, 2019 @01:28PM (#18817653)

There is also an issue with growing cells in regular atmosphere (20% oxygen) vs body atmosphere (<8% oxygen).

However, until you show that these differences matter, nobody cares.

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Re:By growing cells in unrealistic liquids, scientists may h... by xkcd-sucks on Friday January 04, 2019 @05:09PM (#18828153)

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=low+oxygen+cell+culture...

I attended a small local conference a few years ago at which a presentation on practical low oxygen cell culture was given. It seemed like the perfect way to pep up our fetal hippocampal neuron cultures. But it never happened because of, um, "research culture"

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Re:By growing cells in unrealistic liquids, scientists may h... by bsder on Friday January 04, 2019 @05:21PM (#18828264)

It's actually not that expensive to do: http://brincubator.com/ (Disclaimer: I have links to these folks, so treat that as unsubstantiated marketing drivel until you prove otherwise :) )

Those folks have lots of literature citations.

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