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tissue culture: Quick Facts

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Tissue culture often requires sterile working conditions and thus is typically performed in a laminar flow cabinet (or tissue culture hood), which circulates filtered air to reduce the risk of culture contamination.
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Ross Granville Harrison
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John Franklin Enders
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Renato Dulbecco, 1966.
Renato Dulbecco
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Frederick Chapman Robbins
American physician
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Thomas H. Weller
American physician and virologist
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Gottlieb Haberlandt
Austrian botanist

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