The new tissue culture

The new tissue culture.

tissue culture came after 19 years in a job I loved at a small pharmaceutical company (although in this first case no one actually offered me any tissues). Having been at the company for such a long time, I felt I had some job security. But I found out how wrong I was when the company was sold. Part of me understood that losing my job this way was “just business,” but I still felt a deep profes...

New Developments in Tissue Culture

THE IMMUNOLOGY OF RHEUMATISM. By Jerzy B. Kwapinski and Marshall L. Synder. New York, Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1962. xii, 255 pp. $9.00. The immunology of rheumatism is a large field which is rapidly evolving. Any monograph on the subject will almost surely seem somewhat antiquated by the time it appears in print, and this monograph is no exception. Most of the references date from 1958 or earl...

Tissue Culture

Dr. Willmer's second edition of this little book fulfills his stated purpose ... to correlate some of the numerous fragments of scattered data which have so far been obtained and to orientate them in such a way as to illustrate the more fundamental contributions which the method has made to physiological knowledge, and to show the manner in which a change of outlook has already been brought abo...

Tissue culture: the unrealized potential

Lack of differentiated functions of the tissue of origin in tissue culture thought to be due to dedifferentiation was shown to be due to selective overgrowth of fibroblasts. Enrichment culture techniques, (alternate animal and culture passage), designed to give the functionally differentiated cells selective advantage over the fibroblasts resulted in a large number of functionally differentiate...

Adaptation of Horsesickness Virus to Tissue Culture