Fetal Bovine Serum (FBS, Fetal Calf Serum) acts not only as a growth promoting additive to your cell culture media, but also as a stabilizer in diagnostic assays, for surface coating culture vessels or for inactivating trypsin. It supports most cell lines and is tested for viruses and microorganisms.
Collection facilities outside the United States are in countries that have been declared free of certain bovine viruses such as foot and mouth disease by the USDA. Each lot of animal serum is certified as to country of origin, assuring when applicable, that USDA importation regulations are strictly followed. Documentation of traceability can be supplied upon request for every lot of fetal bovine serum. Fetal bovine serum is collected using a closed, aseptic cardiocentesis method in order to minimize hemoglobin, endotoxin, and microbial agents.
Applications
• Additive for cell culture media • Stabilizer • Surface coating • Inactivation of trypsin
Source
USDA-approved sources and goes through the same filtration schemes and final quality-control testing as our other grades.
Sterility
Triple 0.1um sterile-filtered Bacteria: No Growth Fungi: No Growth
Mycoplasma (PCR)
None Detected
Viruses
BlueTongue, BovineAdeno3, BovineAdeno5, BPV, BRSV BVD, Cytopathic BVD, Non-Cytopathic Cytopathic(IBR) Hemadsorbing (Pl3), Rabies, REOViru None Detected
Hormone Panel
Cortisol, Insulin, Progesterone, T3, T4 Testosterone As reported
Biological Performance
SP2/0-Ag14Day3, MRC-5Day5, CH0K1Day3 Relative Colony Forming Efficiency, AbsoluteColonyFormingEfficiency, Relative Cloning Efficiency, Absolute Cloning Efficiency As reported
Endotoxin (LAL)
As reported. Typically ≤1Eu/ml)
TDS
NCBI
UniProt
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