Laura Defrancesco | Jan 4, 1998 | 6 min read
Date: January 5, 1998 Chart 1, Chart 2, Chart 3 With the prospect of huge profits from pharmaceuticals, serum-free tissue culture has been catapulted from a cottage industry to high technology Think of serum-free media and an image comes to mind of a scientist sitting in front of a stack of tissue culture plates, painstakingly adding a little of this or a little of that to each plate in search of just the right combination. The motivation behind this activity varies-some scientists want to