Rapid developments in culture-independent molecular methods of identifying microbes and improved microscopy now permit fuller assessments of the nature and function of microbial communities.
Saunders, D.et al. Dendritic cell development in culture from thymic precursor cells in the absence of granulocyte/macrophage colony-stimulating factor.
The ability to maintain embryo development in culture depends upon the ability of the embryo to maintain cellular homeostasis.
Temple, S. & Raff, M. C. Clonal analysis of oligodendrocyte development in culture: evidence for a developmental clock that counts cell divisions.
Raff, M. C., Lillien, L. E., Richardson, W. D., Burne, J. F. & Noble, M. D. Platelet-derived growth factor from astrocytes drives the clock that times oligodendrocyte development in culture.
"Their maturation continues throughout infancy". The ability to study these cells' full development in culture portends advances in understanding neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism and schizophrenia -- without using fetal brain tissue.
By long experience of the course of human society, the principle of development in culture has become so ingrained in our philosophy that ethnologists, of whatever school, hardly doubt but that, whether by progress or degradation, savagery and civilization are connected as lower and higher stages of one formation.
In contrast, human cortical neurons exhibited poor spine development in culture (data not shown), precluding their use for this study.
Interestingly we found that both FLP and FLPe had an 'off target' effect on blood stage development in culture, resulting in a reduced growth rate and/or arrest in parasite development.
