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ReviewFrontiers in toxicology2025

Fetal bovine serum: how to leave it behind in the pursuit of more reliable science.

Tilo Weber, Atena Malakpour-Permlid, Aline Chary, Vito D'Alessandro, Leah Haut, Sebastian Seufert, Esther Veronika Wenzel, James Hickman, Karen Bieback, Joachim Wiest and 3 more

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Review in Frontiers in toxicology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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20citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

20 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors.

Tilo WeberAnimal Welfare Academy of the German Animal Welfare Federation, Neubiberg, Germany.
Atena Malakpour-PermlidDepartment of Health Technology, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark.
Aline CharyDepartment of Environmental Research and Innovation, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Belvaux, Luxembourg.
Vito D'AlessandroDepartment of Cellular, Computational and Integrative Biology, University of Trento, Trento, Italy.
Leah HautAnimal Welfare Academy of the German Animal Welfare Federation, Neubiberg, Germany.
Sebastian SeufertMachine Learning Expert, Zeil am Main, Germany.
Esther Veronika WenzelAbcalis GmbH, Braunschweig, Germany.
James HickmanNanoScience Technology Center, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, United States.
Karen BiebackInstitute of Transfusion Medicine and Immunology, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany.
Joachim WiestCellasys Know-How UG, Kronburg, Germany.
Wilhelm Gerhard DirksLeibniz-Institute DSMZ, German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Braunschweig, Germany.
Sandra CoeckeEuropean Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Ispra, Italy.
Stina OredssonDepartment of Biology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cell cultures form the backbone for scientific research and development, but also for clinical diagnostics and biotechnology. Supplying cells

Indexed as

animal-free in vitrochemically defined mediacomplex in vitro modelscryopreservationcultivated meatfetal bovine serum replacementreproducibilityxeno-free and serum-free media

Identifiers

PMID40861932
PMCPMC12371577

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