culture medium

American  

noun

Bacteriology.

1. medium.

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culture medium British  

noun

1. a nutritive substance, such as an agar gel or liquid medium, in which cultures of bacteria, fungi, animal cells, or plant cells are grown

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Etymology

Origin of culture medium

First recorded in 1880–85

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culture medium

The researchers developed a culture medium to grow stem cells that included a small number of defined components present in blood, including insulin, specific proteins, growth factors and others.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 11, 2023

If the rice is left to cool and sit at room temperature, the spores grow into bacteria, which will increase in numbers quickly as rice is a good Bacillus culture medium when at room temperature.

From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2023

Around the same time Loeb's book was published, French physician Alexis Carrel developed techniques for growing tissues in a culture medium: a kind of unformed living material.

From Scientific American ● May 31, 2023

So the group, which also included developmental biologist Juan Carlos Izpisúa Belmonte and his team at the Salk Institute in San Diego, California, exposed stem cells isolated from cow embryos to the new culture medium.

From Science Magazine ● Feb. 5, 2018

He explained what culture medium was, and how he moved cells from freezer to incubator to grow.

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