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Gibco™ Fetal Bovine Serum, qualified, United States
Description
Gibco fetal bovine sera offer excellent value for basic cell culture, specialty research, and specific assays, earning the trust of researchers with consistent quality and award-winning support that helps meet your research needs and budget requirements
Gibco Sera: Trusted Quality for Consistent Performance
Gibco Sera Category: Value Plus (Performance)
- Use for general cell culture with common cell lines
- Low endotoxin and hemoglobin levels
- Endotoxin level: <10 EU/mL
- Hemoglobin level: <25 mg/dL
- Origin: United States
Gibco Serum Delivers
- ISO 13485 certified, processed in FDA registered facilities
- Triple filtered at 0.1 μm
- Gibco bottle is easier to use in the hood, reduces the risk of contamination and helps you perform cell culture more consistently
- Peel-off sticker on label provides handy reference for lot number and expiration date recording in lab notebook
Order Info
Shipping Condition: Dry Ice
Specifications
Specifications
| Content And Storage | Storage conditions: ≤-10°C Shipping conditions: Frozen |
| Description | Fetal Bovine Serum, qualified, One Shot™ format, United States |
| Species | Bovine |
| Age | Fetal |
| Country of Origin | United States |
| Form | Liquid |
| Format | One Shot |
| Product Type | Fetal Bovine Serum |
| Quantity | 50 mL |
| Serum Treatment | Standard (Sterile-filtered) |
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
- Heating inactivates complement. Active complement can participate in cytolytic events, contract smooth muscle, release histamine from mast cells and platelets, and activate lymphocytic and macrophage cells. Applications where heat-inactivated serum is recommended include immunological studies and culturing of embryonic stem cells (ESCs), insect cells, and smooth muscle cells.
- Heat inactivation helps to achieve bottle-to-bottle and lot-to-lot stability by neutralizing many factors that can vary largely from lot to lot.
- There aren't necessarily disadvantages to heat inactivation of FBS, but there is some evidence that suggests there may be no added benefit to it unless you are carrying out immune studies.
Note: Heat inactivation is performed in a 56 degrees C water bath for 30 min with swirling every 10 min or so for heat distribution and to lower the degree of protein aggregation/flocculant precipitation. Note: If the time or temperature is exceeded, the serum may thicken to a gel. If this occurs, the serum is no longer usable. Unnecessary heat inactivation can take up time and potentially lead to wasted reagents if a mistake is made during the protocol1.
1. Pellerin, et al., Bioengineering, published in 2021.
The stability after opening and thawing is application-dependent and most often, it is used within a week or less. The product can be thawed and refrozen. This is standard practice for making aliquots. We recommend that you make smaller aliquots and use as needed.
The main difference is in the Quality Control (QC) test specifications. “Qualified” and “Certified” FBS go through the same QC tests but “Certified” FBS has additional QC tests as well as more stringent QC test specifications for endotoxin and hemoglobin levels. The additional QC tests in “Certified” FBS include biochemical and hormonal profiling.
Serum can be kept at 2-8 degrees C for up to 4 weeks.
Yes, we also offer a 10 X 50 mL package, which is equivalent to a 500 mL bottle of FBS.
For research use or further manufacturing use only. Serum and blood proteins are not for direct administration into humans or animals.
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