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Contamination is one of the main roadblocks to successful cell culture. This article explores the different types of contamination, how to identify microbial contaminants in cell culture and best ...

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From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Life emerged on Earth some 3.8 billion years ago. The "primordial soup theory" proposes that chemicals floating in pools of water, in the presence of sunlight and electrical discharge, spontaneously ...

ABSTRACT: The paper proposes a conceptual model in which for each function—from cellular to organism, a frequency cluster (group) consisting of nerve, glial or any other cells is built based on needs.

“These single-cell organisms can do things that we assume ... in a petri dish and then watched how the liquid flew under a microscope. “You see them create these swirls around their mouths ...

Hence, scientists took this opportunity to explore the subtle processes occurring in living organisms. Nevertheless, such observations are complex─they require delicate samples kept in the liquid ...