tissue culture

noun

|Updated on: 26 May 2018

Definition of tissue culture

: the process or technique of making body tissue grow in a culture medium outside the organism; also : a culture of tissue (such as epithelium)

Recent Examples of tissue culture from the Web

Professional growers use heat treatments and tissue culture to control viral disease.

— the editors of organic life, Good Housekeeping, "Grow Healthy Food By Identifying + Treating These Common Plant Diseases," 21 July 2015
That's why, in August 2016, Front Range Biosciences began developing a method of tissue culturing that avoided all these problems.

— matt simon, WIRED, "How Cannabis Tech Can Help Build a Better Cup of Coffee," 27 Mar. 2018
Here, Hogan grows plants from seeds, cuttings and tissue culture, then ships them to all corners of the earth.

— janet eastman, OregonLive.com, "Paradise on a standard city lot: Horticulturalist Sean Hogan to sell his Portland hideaway (photos)," 4 Jan. 2018
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are developing a new 3-D tissue culturing system to study endometriosis with the goal of one day improving treatment.

— abby haglage, SELF, "This 3-D Tissue Culturing System Could Change the Way Doctors Treat Endometriosis," 25 Oct. 2017

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