In order to grow the cells in culture, we need to fulfil the requirements of cell culture. The cell culture setting is essentially important to make sure that our cell can grow well in certain condition. There are many criteria of cancer cell culture that must be met. Today, we will discuss one of the major requirements for cell culture which is media.   Media as Requirement of Cell Culture As we all know, culture media is playing a major [...] Read more »

Cancer cell culture has its own history. After discussing the Introduction of Cancer Cell Culture, today we are going to discuss about the cancer cell culture history from beginning until now. In fact, cell culture has started to develop since the last century. We can trace back the story from year 1885. Cancer Cell Culture History In 1885, a scientist named Wilhelm Roux proved that the medullary plate of a chick embryo can be survive in saline solution for several [...] Read more »

Cell culture is the common practice for almost all cancer research in the world currently. This technique involves the way to grow up the cells, especially the cancer cells and subsequently enables the cells to live outside the body. As what I have mentioned in my previous post, I am going to write a Cancer Cell Culture Series in this blog which covers most of the topic in cell culture. This is the first post of the series. The aim [...] Read more »

Cancer cell culture is an important element in many cancer research approaches. As I have been assigned by Professor Hany Ariffin to learn more about cancer cell culture, I decide to write a series of articles about this topic. The main objective for this cancer cell culture series is to explain easy-to-follow methods so that my readers can really get benefits from it. Cancer Cell Culture Series Basically, I will try to cover as much as topics I can in [...] Read more »