Comment Cell culture with or without FBS? (Score 4, Interesting) 69
So the thing about growing mammalian cells in a dish is that the soup they grow in most likely contains fetal bovine serum (FBS)... You know, a byproduct taken from the blood of cow fetuses.
Growing muscle cells is any quantity is already hard as it is, growing them in FBS free cell medium is really cutting-edge research. Always makes me wonder: Are these company always 100% honest about their process? And if they use FBS without telling their customers, is that ethical? Let alone sustainable in the long term?
Anyway, just a thought