Tissue culture method limitations?
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☆☞limitations of tissue culture
Tissue culture often suffers from its admirers. There is a kind of romance in the idea of being able to remove living cells from the body and watch their activities in a glass vessel, as if they were tadpoles in a jam jar, which sometimes causes imaginative people to express many extravagant claims and hopes which experience fails to justify, and which has sometimes impelled the more critically minded to regard the whole subject with suspicion.There are even those who would exalt tissue culture to the status of a distinct science—in the writer's opinion a false ideal, which, if achieved, would greatly restrict the usefulness of the method. Tissue culture is merely a valuable technique with peculiar advantages and corresponding limitations, and it is only valuable when applied by adequately qualified people to suitable problems.This communication deals first with the two chief advantages and some of the principal limitations of tissue culture as a research method, and then considers what qualifications are necessary for the successful use of the technique and the types of investigation for which it is appropriate.