In-Vitro Experiment

An In-Vitro Experiment is a Randomized Comparative Experiment that involves microorganisms, cells, or biological molecules as test subjects to predict how certain variables affect a living system.

• AKA: In-Vitro Testing, Test Tube Experiment, Cell Culture Experiment.
• Example(s):
  • In-Vitro Preclinical Trial,
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • In-Vivo Experiment,
  • First-In-Human Clinical Trial.
• See: Drug Development Clinical Trial, Clinical Trial, Clinical Research, Animal Disease Model, Polymerase Chain Reaction, Protein Purification, In-Vitro Fertilization, In-Vitro Diagnostics.

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References

2022

• (Wikipedia, 2022) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_vitro Retrieved:2022-1-15.
  • In vitro (meaning in glass, or in the glass) studies are performed with microorganisms, cells, or biological molecules outside their normal biological context. Colloquially called “test-tube experiments", these studies in biology and its subdisciplines are traditionally done in labware such as test tubes, flasks, Petri dishes, and microtiter plates. Studies conducted using components of an organism that have been isolated from their usual biological surroundings permit a more detailed or more convenient analysis than can be done with whole organisms; however, results obtained from in vitro experiments may not fully or accurately predict the effects on a whole organism. In contrast to in vitro experiments, in vivo studies are those conducted in living organisms, including humans, and whole plants.

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