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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.
The term "tissue culture" was coined by the French surgeon Alexis Carrel and his assistant, Montrose Burrows. They introduced the term and defined the concept while reporting on their advancements in a series of papers published between 1910 and 1911, which improved upon earlier techniques developed by Ross G. Harrison.1