cell culture
A glossary of culture terms
Pairs of culture words that laboratories mix up, and the wrong next action each pair causes, from confluence versus density through to confluent versus differentiated.
8 October 2026 · 9 min read
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Biosafety level is an institutional decision
BSL-1 and BSL-2 as educational descriptions only: the containment assignment for a line or sample is made by the institution, and a supplier cannot make it.
8 October 2026 · 8 min read
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Comparing flasks dishes and plates
How to choose flasks, dishes or multiwell plates for a culture week: expansion, treatment and imaging, with the failure each format is prone to.
8 October 2026 · 9 min read
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Endotoxin and primary immune cells
Why lipopolysaccharide can activate primary monocytes or macrophages that an epithelial line ignores, and which reagent classes to suspect first.
8 October 2026 · 7 min read
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Mammalian cell culture for research labs
How research labs keep mammalian cell culture workable: medium, aseptic technique, confluence, passage records and contamination checks.
8 October 2026 · 8 min read
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Photos of morphology are data
A culture photograph is a record only with passage, scale and time since seeding. This glossary separates phase contrast, confluence and morphological words.
8 October 2026 · 7 min read
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Questions before a plasticware enquiry for culture
What to specify before a culture-plastic enquiry: printed growth area, treated or untreated surface, cap type, material, and the cell behaviour the vessel assumes.
8 October 2026 · 9 min read
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Records a culture notebook should hold
The culture notebook fields that let someone else continue a line: identity, passage, medium lot, observations, contamination checks and the freezer location.
8 October 2026 · 7 min read
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Troubleshooting slow growth
A selection guide for a culture growing more slowly than its own record: which clue to check first, and which reagent class to change only after that check.
8 October 2026 · 8 min read
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Troubleshooting sudden death of a culture
How to name an overnight culture crash: contamination, toxicity, or a temperature excursion, and the first question each appearance of the flask should force.
8 October 2026 · 8 min read
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Working inside a biosafety cabinet
How a Class II biosafety cabinet moves air, how that differs from a chemical fume hood, and which habits keep cultures and workers protected.
8 October 2026 · 9 min read