Gibco Cell Culture Sera

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Offering performance and consistency essential to successful cell culture

Quality, performance, consistency, and customized solutions are essential to the success of our bioproduction customers. Gibco sera have earned the trust of customers around the world through its excellent quality, proven reliability, traceability, and superior support. With over 40 years of serum operations in New Zealand, Australia, and USA, Gibco sera help meet biopharmaceutical manufacturing requirements.
 

Supporting reliable cell culture products for over 60 years

Gibco sera aims to deliver the highest level of quality, featuring:

  • Vertically integrated manufacturing process to offer traceability and quality
  • cGMP compliant manufacturing process
  • ISO certified and processed in FDA registered facilities
  • Customization and outstanding technical and analytical support
  • Processed to help minimize risk of viral contamination
    • Exclusive proprietary screening for BVDV at collection (FBS) in Australia and New Zealand
    • Validated in-house virus testing capabilities per EU guidelines

Gibco Fetal Bovine Serum (FBS)

As one of the largest global serum suppliers, we offer the highest quality sera from BSE-negligible regions for cell culture in biopharmaceuticals manufacturing. We customize our serum products and provide outstanding technical and analytical support to help meet the needs of industrial customers.

 

Performance based on science

Specifications, not origin, help drive consistent performance. We transformed our Gibco FBS portfolio into categories focused on quality indicators: Value FBS, Premium FBS, and Premium Plus FBS. Now you can easily select which option fits your needs based on how they perform, not where they came from. This also enables us to minimize supply disruption since there is less reliance on origin.

Choose the right performance-focused FBS for your bioprocessing

Premium Plus FBS

Our highest-quality FBS for use with the most sensitive cells; up to 70 quality specification tests, including our lowest levels of endotoxin and hemoglobin release specifications.

Premium FBS

Our most popular FBS product; high quality and exceptional value with up to 60 quality specification tests.

 

Value FBS

For standard applications with up to 30 quality specification tests.


 

Premium Plus FBS

Description Unit size Catalog No. Reference*
Fetal Bovine Serum, Premium Plus 500 mL A5669701 FBS, certified, US origin, 500 mL (Cat. No. 16000044)

FBS, New Zealand origin, 500 mL (Cat. No. 10091148)

FBS, qualified, Australia origin, 500 mL (Cat. No. 10099141)
Heat Inactivated, Fetal Bovine Serum, Premium Plus 500 mL A5669801
Gamma Irradiated, Fetal Bovine Serum, Premium Plus 500 mL A5669901
GI HI, Fetal Bovine Serum, Premium Plus 500 mL A5669201

* Our previously offered catalog numbers

Premium FBS

Description Unit size Catalog No. Reference*
Fetal Bovine Serum, Premium 500 mL A5670701 FBS, qualified, US origin, 500 mL (Cat. No. 26140079)
Heat Inactivated (HI), Fetal Bovine Serum, Premium 500 mL A5670801
Gamma Irradiated (GI), Fetal Bovine Serum, Premium 500 mL A5670901
GI HI, Fetal Bovine Serum, Premium 500 mL A5670201

Value FBS

Description Unit size Catalog No. Reference*
Fetal Bovine Serum, Value 500 mL A5256701

FBS, USDA-approved regions, 500 mL (Cat. No. 10437028)
 

FBS, qualified, Brazil origin, 500 mL (Cat. No. 10270106)
 

FBS, qualified, Canada origin, 500 mL (Cat. No. 12483020)
Heat Inactivated, Fetal Bovine Serum, Value 500 mL A5256801
Gamma Irradiated, Fetal Bovine Serum, Value 500 mL A5256501
GI HI, Fetal Bovine Serum, Value 500 mL A5256901

Specialty FBS

Our specialty FBS is meticulously sourced and rigorously tested for the highest standards of quality and performance. Perfect for a wide range of bioprocessing applications, our FBS provides essential nutrients and growth factors to support optimal cell growth and viability:

  • Ultra-low IgG FBS—Ideal for studying and developing antibodies, viruses and viral responses, and cell-surface epitopes, these sera contain IgG levels of less than 5 µg/mL, and BVDV antibody titer is low and not detectable
  • Dialyzed FBS—Ideal for studying and developing proteomics, isotope labeling, cellular signaling, and reporter assays, these sera have been dialyzed by tangential flow filtration utilizing 10,000 molecular weight (MW) cutoff filters. Dialyzed FBS has been performance tested for cloning and plating efficiency.

Contact us for more information on specialty FBS
 

Other animal sera

Although FBS is the most commonly used serum product, many other products offer lower-cost alternatives. These include bovine serum, horse serum, goat serum, and more.
 

  Fetal Bovine Serum Newborn Calf Serum (NBCS) Donor Bovine Serum (DBS) Adult Bovine Serum (ABS)
Source
  • Slaughterhouse derived
  • By-product of the meat industry
  • Blood taken from unborn calf
  • Slaughterhouse derived
  • By-product of the dairy industry
  • Blood taken from approx. 10-day old calf
  • Thermo Fisher Scientific maintains herds
  • Animals kept for a maximum of 24 months
  • BVD screened, monitored by veterinary inspections
  • Slaughterhouse derived
  • By-product of the meat industry
  • Blood taken from large cattle
Key factors
  • High in growth factors
  • Low in immunoglobulins
  • Low endotoxin
  • High in growth factors
  • High in immunoglobulins—colostrum (mother’s first milk)
  • Lower in growth factors
  • Average in immunoglobulin levels
  • Low in growth factors
  • High in immunoglobulins
SKU
  • 16030074 Donor Bovine Serum, 500 mL
  • 10371029 Donor Bovine Serum with Iron, 500 mL

Horse serum

500 mL, 16050122

Goat serum

500 mL, 16210072

Sheep serum

500 mL, 16070096

Rabbit serum

500 mL, 16120107

Porcine serum

500 mL, 26250084

Chicken serum

500 mL, 16110082

For Research Use or Further Manufacturing Use only. Serum and blood proteins are not for direct administration into humans or animals.