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In the 1910s, Alexis Carrel, a French surgeon and biologist, concluded that cells are intrinsically immortal. His claim was based on chick-heart…
ContextCarrel, Alexis, 1873-1944Tissue Culture TechniquesTissue cultureChicksAlexis Carrel, the prominent French surgeon, biologist, and 1912 Nobel Prize laureate for Physiology or Medicine, was one of the pioneers in…
TechnologyCarrel, Alexis, 1873-1944Tissue Culture TechniquesTissue cultureThe hanging drop tissue culture is a technique utilized in embryology and other fields to allow growth that would otherwise be restricted by the flat…
TechnologyTissue cultureTissue Culture Techniques'On the Permanent Life of Tissues outside of the Organism' reports Alexis Carrel's 1912 experiments on the maintenance of tissue in culture media. At…
Tissue cultureStem CellsStem cells--ResearchEmbryologyGerm CellsIn "The Outgrowth of the Nerve Fiber as a Mode of Protoplasmic Movement," Ross Granville Harrison explores the growth of nerve fibers in vitro. The…
ExperimentsNerve Growth FactorTissue culture