What is cell culture?

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Feb 6, 2017

Cell culture is the process by which cells are grown under controlled conditions, generally outside of their natural environment.

Explanation:

In practice , the term 'cell culture' now refers to the culturing of cells derived from multicellular eukaryotes, especially animal cells.

The historical developments and methods of cell culture are closely interrelated to those of tissue culture and organ culture.

Cells are grown and maintained at an appropriate temperature and gas mixture , in a cell incubator. Culture conditions vary widely for each cell type and variation of conditions for a particular cell type can result in different phenotypes.