Bovine serum is a pooled serum sample obtained from a normal donor herd. It is specific for anti-bovine serum and yields multiple arcs of precipitation during immunoelectrophoresis versus anti-bovine serum.

• Negative control or blocking agent in immunoassays
• Cultivation of Plasmodium falciparum
• Controls for gas chromatography/ high-resolution mass spectrometry analysis

Alternative to foetal bovine serum (FBS) in the growth promotion and cloning efficiency of Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells that are used in the HGPRT mutation assay.