Fetal bovine serum has been the most widely used growth supplement for cell culture media because of its high content of embryonic growth-promoting factors.

• Supplies components that satisfy specific metabolic requirements for the culture of cells in vitro
• Suitable for cell culture and insect cell culture
• Source of growth promoting and survival enhancing factor

CELLect™ FBS, Gold, Heat Inactivated is used in a broad range of cell culture applications.

Serum is an extremely complex mixture of many small and large biomolecules with different, physiologically balanced growth-promoting and growth-inhibiting activities. Some of the major functions of serum are to provide growth factors, hormones, attachment and spreading factors, binding proteins, lipids, and minerals.

FBS provides many non-defined growth promoting and survival enhancing factor to cells in culture.