Resources for Cell Biology

Cell Culture Guides

Animal Cell Culture Guide — tips and techniques for continuous cell lines (1.07 MB/.pdf)
hTERT Immortalized Cell Culture Guide — tips and techniques for culturing hTERT immortalized cells (1.06 MB/.pdf)
Stem Cell Culture Guide — tips and techniques for culturing stem cells (2.36 MB/.pdf)
Primary Cell Culture Guide — tips and techniques for culturing primary cells (784 KB/.pdf)
Cryopreservation Technical Manual (404KB/.pdf)

Application Notes

3T3-L3 Cells — 3T3-L1 cells lose contact inhibition and adipogenic potential when maintained in cult ure at confluence. (972KB/.pdf)
CellMatrix Basement Membrane Gel — CellMatrix Basement Membrane Gel supports in vitro angiogenesis assays. (980KB/.pdf)
HEKPlus Protein Expression System — easy-to-use mammalian protein expression system. (964KB/.pdf)
Telomerase-immortalized microvascular endothelial (TIME) Cells — Growth rate and endothelial character are better maintained in ATCC^® VCBM -VEGF medium. (968KB/.pdf)
Tips for successful sub-culturing: Dissociation Method — Tailoring your dissociation method to your cell line. (523KB/.pdf)
Universal Mycoplasma Detection Kit — check your cultures for mycoplasma contamination (972KB/.pdf)

Online Video Resources

CORNING® Webinars — Free online cell culture and assay training

Published Articles

The Scientist — Sharing Made Easy
GEN — Safeguarding Biological Material
Drug Discovery News — Working together to eradicate cell line misidentification and contamination: New practices and policy

Technical Bulletins and Culture Tips

How to Revive Cultures
CORNING® Technical Articles and Protocols
Technical Bulletin No. 3: Cryogenic Preservation of Animal Cells (50.2KB/.pdf)
Technical Bulletin No. 4: Guide to Subculturing Cell Line Monolayers (47.8KB/.pdf)
Technical Bulletin No. 7: Passage Number Effects In Cell Lines (220KB/.pdf)
Technical Bulletin No. 8: Cell Line Authentication Test Recommendations (483KB/.pdf)
Technical Bulletin No. 9: Chemically-induced Differentiation of ATCC^® CL-173™ (3T3-L1) Using Single Component Commercially Available Reagents ((61KB/.pdf)
Technical Bulletin No. 10: Lymphocyte Transformation Using ATCC^® VR-1492™ (241KB/.pdf)

Cell Authentication

Cell Line Authentication Test Recommendations (483KB/.pdf)/li>
STR Profiling (471 KB/.pdf)
Mycoplasma Detection (585 KB/.pdf)
Titered Mycoplasma Strains Panel (906KB/.pdf)
Cell Lines Misidentification: the beginning of the end (Run/ 3.57MB/.pdf)
Maintaining High Standards in Cell Culture (1.49MB/.pdf)
The Costs of Using Unauthenticated, Over-Passaged Cells (391 KB/.pdf)
Guide to Subculturing Cell Line Monolayers (47.8KB/.pdf)
Guidelines for Testing and Publishing (47.8KB/.pdf)
Cryogenic Preservation of Animal Cells (50.2KB/.pdf)
Passage Number Effects In Cell lines (377KB/.pdf)
Misidentified Cell lines

Cell Line Brochures

Brain Tumor Cell Lines (657 KB/.pdf)
Breast and Gynecological Tumor Cell Lines (335 KB/.pdf)
Gastrointestinal Tumor Cell Lines (344 KB/.pdf)
Genitourinary Tumor Cell Lines (783 KB/.pdf)
Lung Tumor Cell Lines (808 KB/.pdf)
Tumor/Normal Matched Cell Line Pairs (362 KB/.pdf)
Tumor Cell Panels Brochure (2 MB/.pdf)

Cell Culture Media and Kits

ATCC High-Performance Media and Sera Brochure (739 kb/.pdf)
Comparison of the MTT and XTT Cell Proliferation Assay Kits (561KB/.pdf)
Transfection Control Experiment (3MB/.pdf)

References and Additional Publications

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