cell culture

  • pH Variation of DMEM

    (Transferred from old blog) Aim: Determine how quickly DMEM pH changes once removed from the incubator Methods and Materials: • non-sterile complete Dulbecco’s Modified Eagle’s Medium (DMEM) supplemented with 10% FBS • 6 and 24 well cell culture plates • 37 ºC 5% CO2 incubator 2 mL and 5 mL DMEM were placed in a…

  • HUVEC Growth on Si

    Over the past five days Anant and I monitored human umbilical vein endothelial cell (HUVEC) proliferation on three substrates: RTP-treated Si samples (both with and without membranes), glass (microscope coverslips), and plastic (6-well tissue culture plates). After the first two time points very few cells were observed on the silicon samples, so we added more…