Cell growth

... terms: if there is a sudden change in the environment, a bacterial cell that has, say, a mutation that allows it to survive in the precense of a new antibiotic even if the mutation otherwise decreases it's growth rate a bit, survives because other bacteria die. This way a bacterium ...

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... done to prevent unwanted complement activity while still retaining the growth-supporting functions of serum. Serum is not primarily a nutrient source in most cell culture media, it's main function is to facilitate cell growth by providing required ...

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Ahoy folks, I'm reading an article concerning Sickle-cell diseases, and stumbled upon a rather lenghty word, " Membranoproliferative ... guess that Membranoproliferative means something along the lines of quick growth/swelling in the membrane of a cell. (Which happens to fit pretty well with ...

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... to consume more at a time. But my text says that rates of exponential growth are influenced by the composition of the culture medium, so I'm not ... but just adding more of a certain energy source wouldn't because the cell still has to break down the same thing, which takes the same amount ...

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... of mine but i believe it is very possable as we are able to regenerate cells as babies and as we are just a fetus but we loose the ability to coordinate ... it possable to use stem cells to engineer a human liver but during its growth process to introduce hormones from a salamander or axolotl to ...

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