There is also an issue with growing cells in regular atmosphere (20% oxygen) vs body atmosphere (<8% oxygen).<p>However, until you <i>show</i> that these differences matter, nobody cares.
>> This red elixir, known as Eagle’s minimal essential medium (EMEM)...<p>It's just me, right? That doesn't sound like something out of a D&D sourcebook?
In practice, this could be really bad for machine learning when applied to cell images (I work for a company that grows modified human cells and collects the images and applies DNNs to them as classifier). DMEM (or FBS, which we use) would effectively cause a systemic bias that would be hard to correct for.
This makes me mad. Billions are being poured into medical research and I wonder how much of it is being wasted. Several weeks ago I heard that some study concluded that moderate amounts of alcohol and coffee are good for you[0]...Argh.<p>[0] <a href="https://abc7news.com/health/alcohol-coffee-could-be-key-to-living-longer-study-finds/4969361/" rel="nofollow">https://abc7news.com/health/alcohol-coffee-could-be-key-to-l...</a>
I haven't read the article yet, but the title sounds like "by putting salt water fish in fresh water, scientists may have skewed mortality rates". I hope it's not that bad.