Reassessment of Carrel's Immortal Tissue Culture Experiments

Laboratory life. The social construction of scientific facts

supported by facts, he believed in the good of the inductive method in all walks of life. He put this to work in studies such as the influences of environment on parameters of behaviour of mice and men. He eventually succeeded in building up a Fondation Francaise pour l'Etude des Problmes Humains in occupied Paris from 1941 to 1944, for which he was much maligned after the liberation. Carrel's ...

Dr. Carrel's immortal cells.

Alexis Carrel and the mysticism of tissue culture.

ALEIS CARREL was one of the pioneers of tissue culture and its chief publicist. He was largely responsible for the early development of the technique, but although he made a number of practical contributions, it was his influence on his contemporaries that was particularly significant. Carrel's tissue culture techniques were based on his surgical expertise and they became increasingly complicat...

Replicative Senescence: An Old Lives' Tale?

underlying cause of organismic aging. This idea is much more controversial and less intuitively obvious. How did Life Sciences Division Department of Cancer Biology it come about, and what is the evidence for it? The observation that cell division is inherently limited contradicted an earlier belief, championed by Carrel, Normal animal cells, with few exceptions, do not divide that vertebrate c...

The cancer cell in vitro: a review.

causes the disease. Recent research indicates that, whereas the reaction of the host may contribute to the establishment and growth of a cancer, there is no doubt that the primary lesion occurs in the cell. The tissue culture method has therefore been em ployed to study the cell lesion in isolation from the host. The implications of tissue culture in cancer research were appreciated very early,...