The Dire Need for Alternatives: Fetal Bovine Serum

Hiral M. Chavre
4 min readJul 26, 2021
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What if I told you that thousands of scientific studies could contain misleading results?

Fetal bovine serum, or FBS, is a growth media constantly utilized in the research field. It was created by Theodore Puck in the 1950s to “stimulate cellular growth in cell and tissue culture.”

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Hiral M. Chavre

Hey! 👋 I’m Hiral and I’m a curious 16-year-old diving deep into emerging technologies like cellular agriculture!