Animal cell culture: History, basic and application in blood bank service

Abstract

There are several benefits of cell culture either in researches or clinical practices. For instance, cell culture is a mandatory process for some diagnostic tests, monoclonal antibody production and the procedures of in vitro fertilization. Indeed, several devices and techniques have been currently developed leading to less difficult processes including cell culture hoods with several antibiotics. However, the cell culture processes still relying on experienced and highly skilled researchers with relatively high cost. As such, several cell properties depend on
the detail of cell conditions and laboratory preparation. Hence, the fundamental knowledge of cell culture procedures is importance for the accuracy and the interpretation of cell culture experiments. The National Blood Center, Thai Red Cross Society, applied the basic knowledge of the animal cell culture to develop in the production of various blood type reagents leading to successful, begetting many benefits. In the future, cell culture will still be used to develop the production of rare blood types reagents.