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"A Beginner's Guide to Mammalian Cell Culture contains the basics and the most essential knowledge on culturing mammalian cells useful for any researcher to start mammalian cell culture independently. It’s written in a simple languageand is equipped with images of cell cultures and illustrations for more clarity. The contents of the book include guidancefor researchers to choose appropriate cell lines, reagents, equipment and consumables for their research, usage andmaintenance of equipment, basic information on bio-safety levels and precautions that must be taken at each level toensure safety of the personnel handling cell cultures, microbial contaminations and how to avoid them and mostimportantly tips to maintain cell cultures and to trouble shoot issues independently. The book has been edited by Dr. Francis Tan, a senior research fellow at the Department of Anesthesia, National University of Singapore. Dr. Tan has many years ofexperience in culturing mammalian cells, maintaining laboratory equipment and training researchers in these techniques, which has been a valuable source of input for thecompletion of this book."