A Divergent View on the Significance of Tissue Culture — A Speculative Essay

by Gordon H. Sato, PhD
Volume 5, Issue 1 (Spring 2006)


The significance of tissue culture is that an understanding of animal physiology will come from a study of the basic elements of the animal (the cell) in isolated, pure form (clonal culture), under defined conditions (hormonally defined media). This should be the fundamental approach to animal physiology for the foreseeable future. The problem with this formulation in 1958, when I began work on tissue culture, was that cells in culture did not display the differentiated properties of the tissue of origin…

Citation:
Sato GH. A Divergent View on the Significance of Tissue Culture — A Speculative Essay. BioProcess J, 2006; 5(1): 15-16. https://doi.org/10.12665/J51.Sato