2018-02-18

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Storage and transport is a vital part of any lab that does cell culture, but for anything other than bacteria and fungi, the ways to do this require extreme cold. Here we demonstrate how to prepare a ultralight foam from cross linked gelatin, which can be used to keep cells alive for up to a week at room temperature. No incubator, CO2, dry ice or liquid nitrogen required. The material is easy to make and prepare and the method works for both adherent and suspension cells.

This was filmed while my friend was letting me do the lactose project in his lab. Since filming, he's used this method to ship cells and they survived and were able to be cultured.

Link to original paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/srep41551

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