Biology
Event Title
Growth of Human Cancer Cell Lines in Two Different Conditions
Document Type
Poster Presentation
Location
Indianapolis, IN
Start Date
13-4-2018 2:30 PM
End Date
13-4-2018 4:00 PM
Sponsor
Emi Smith (Earlham College)
Description
Growing human cell lines is expensive. A critical component of cell growth media is Fetal Bovine Serum (FBS) which costs more than $1.00 per ml. A new product, FBEssence, claims to do the same job as FBS but at almost half the cost. We measured growth rates of four human cell lines: Caco2 (colon adenocarcinoma), Calu3 (lung adenocarcinoma), K562 (lymphoblast leukemia) and GM12878 (immortalized B-lymphocyte) grown in media containing either FBEssence (VWR) or FBS (Atlantic Biologicals). The experiments were conducted without knowing which condition - A or B - contained which additive.
Growth of Human Cancer Cell Lines in Two Different Conditions
Indianapolis, IN
Growing human cell lines is expensive. A critical component of cell growth media is Fetal Bovine Serum (FBS) which costs more than $1.00 per ml. A new product, FBEssence, claims to do the same job as FBS but at almost half the cost. We measured growth rates of four human cell lines: Caco2 (colon adenocarcinoma), Calu3 (lung adenocarcinoma), K562 (lymphoblast leukemia) and GM12878 (immortalized B-lymphocyte) grown in media containing either FBEssence (VWR) or FBS (Atlantic Biologicals). The experiments were conducted without knowing which condition - A or B - contained which additive.