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heliculture

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[hel-i-kuhl-cher, hee-li-] / ˈhɛl ɪˌkʌl tʃər, ˈhi lɪ- /

noun

  1. the science or occupation of raising snails for food.


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First author Panke Qu, a graduate student in Liu's lab, conducted the cell-culture studies using pseudoviruses -- a non-infectious viral core surrounded by different SARS-CoV-2 spike proteins on the surface structured to match known variants.

From Science Daily • Jan. 8, 2024

The device requires just 2 milliliters of nutrient-rich broth in each well of a standard 12-well cell-culture plate—compared with about 120 milliliters in each glass flask of a commercial bioreactor.

From Slate • May 3, 2016

Food and Drug Administration gave its OK to start production at Holly Springs, the first facility in the U.S. to produce flu vaccines using cell-culture technology rather than the traditional method of using chicken eggs.

From BusinessWeek • Oct. 27, 2014

He showed2 in cell-culture experiments that HIV seemed to selectively infect and destroy these cells, a subset of the immune system’s T cells.

From Nature

But in fact, Gey’s history indicates that he wasn’t particularly interested in science for profit: in the early 1940s he’d turned down a request to create and run the first commercial cell-culture lab.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot

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