Cell culture media maintains the right pH and supports the growth of many types of cells. The media formulation includes amino acids, vitamins, glucose, inorganic salts and other growth factors designed to support the growth of cells or microorganisms
VWR®, Cell culture media, RPMI 1640
Supplier: VWR Chemicals
RPMI are general purpose enriched media. Originally formulated for suspension cultures and monolayer cultures of human leukemic cells.
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VWR®, Cell culture media, Minimum Essential Medium (MEM)
Supplier: VWR Chemicals
Minimum Essential Medium (MEM) with Earle’s Balanced Salts is a modification of Eagle’s earlier Basal Medium (BME) which contains a higher concentration of essential nutrients. These media promote the growth of a variety of normal and transformed cells. Since they contain Earle’s Balanced Salts, they are suitable for use in atmospheres charged with CO₂ gas.
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VWR®, Cell culture media, McCoy's 5A medium
Supplier: VWR Chemicals
McCoy’s media were originally formulated for growth and support of lymphocytes. This final modification produced a medium identical to RPMI 1629. McCoy's 5A media supports the indefinite proliferation of Walker 256 carcinoma cells. In addition, it is excellent for the propagation of leukocytes, biopsy tissues, a broad range of human and rat normal or transformed cell types, the most current primary and continuous cell lines.
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Why Choose Corning Fetal Bovine Serum?
Our vertically integrated FBS serum supply chain, from collection to scientist, allows us to provide a consistent supply of FBS.
VWR®, Cell culture media, Medium 199
Supplier: VWR Chemicals
Medium 199 was developed specifically for nutritional research of chicken fibroblasts. Today, 199 media are widely used for the maintenance of non transformed cells, vaccine and virus production and primary explants of epithelial cells. The media formulated with the Hanks salts are buffered with saline solutions designed for balancing in ambient conditions, and their use in a CO₂ incubator results in a rapid drop in pH of the culture medium.
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VWR®, Bovine serum albumin (BSA)
Supplier: VWR Chemicals
VWR® Bovine Serum Albumin (BSA) is used in many applications as a stabilisation agent. Albumin is used to solubilise lipids, and is also used as a blocking agent in Western blots or ELISA applications. It is commonly used in cell culture protocols mainly for protein supplementation. It can also be added to viral transport media for stabilisation.
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VWR®, L-Glutamine
Supplier: VWR Chemicals
L-Glutamine is an essential amino acid required by virtually all mammalian and insect cells grown in culture. It is a crucial component of many cell culture media and serves as a major energy source for cells in culture.
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VWR®, Cell culture media, Schneider's Drosophila medium
Supplier: VWR Chemicals
Schneider's Drosophila medium promotes rapid growth of both primary and existing cell cultures derived from Drosophila spp and several other dipterans when supplemented with 5 to 20% heat-inactivated foetal bovine serum.
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VWR®, Cell culture media, Ham's F12
Supplier: VWR Chemicals
Ham's F12 was developed for growth of primary rat hepatocytes and rat prostate epithelial cells. Also used in a clonal toxicity assay using CHO cells. It is frequently used with supplements for serum-free cultures to support the growth of cells of rodent origin, or as a cloning medium for the culture of myeloma and hybrid cells.
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VWR®, Cell culture media, Dulbecco's Modified Eagles Medium (DMEM)
Supplier: VWR Chemicals
Dulbecco's Modified Eagle Medium (DMEM) is designed to preserve and maintain the growth of a broad spectrum of mammalian cell types.
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VWR®, Lymphocyte separation media
Supplier: VWR Chemicals
Lymphocyte separation media is a density gradient medium for the isolation of mononuclear cells from peripheral blood, cord blood and bone marrow.
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VWR®, Penicillin-streptomycin solution (100X)
Supplier: VWR Chemicals
VWR® penicillin-streptomycin solution (100X) is a large spectrum antibiotic designed to control and destroy gram-negative and gram-positive bacteria.