Fox Chase investigators in the convenient and economical use of animal cell culture techniques. The aim of the facility is to provide the appropriate level of service and assistance to each research program using cell cultures. The facility provides a range of services. Some laboratories, with their own culture facilities, depend on us for routine support functions such as medium preparation.
Some investigators sign up for use of facility workstations to conduct their own culture procedures.
For some laboratories, the facility substantially completes the required cell culture work. In other cases, the role of the facility is to provide specialized services such as viable cell banking, initiation and characterization of new cell lines, and Mycoplasma screening. New or unusual procedures can be carried out if they are within the capabilities of the laboratory. The Cell Culture Facility consists of two laboratories for cell culture work, two rooms for instrumentation, cell banks and supplies and a room for the preparation and sterile filtration of media. Part of the latter room is used for the preparation of bacterial growth medium and the pouring of sterile nutrient agar plates.