Media Formulations

Find the right classical media formulation for your mammalian cell culture.

The formulations created by cell culture pioneers like Eagle, Dulbecco, Ham, and others can be found below. It is a testament to their scientific insights that these media still form the basis of most mammalian cell culture research being performed today.

• Ames' Medium
• Basal Media Eagle
• Click's Medium
• Dulbecco's Modified Eagle's Media
• Dulbecco's Modified Eagle's Medium/Ham's Nutrient Mixture F-12
• Dulbecco's Phosphate Buffered Saline (PDF)
• Earle's Balanced Salts (PDF)
• F-12 Coon's Modification
• Glasgow Minimum Essential Media
• Grace's Insect Media (PDF)
• Hanks' Balanced Salts (PDF)
• Iscove's Modified Dulbecco's Media (IMDM)
• IPL-41 Insect Medium (PDF)
• L-15 Media
• M2 and M16 Media (PDF)
• McCoy's 5A Modified Media
• MCDB Media (PDF)
• Medium 199
• Minimum Essential Medium Eagle (MEM)
• NCTC Media
• Nutrient Mixtures (HAM) F-10
• Nutrient Mixtures (HAM) F-12
• Other Salt Mixtures (PDF)
• RPMI-1640 Media
• Schneider's Insect Media (PDF)
• Shields and Sang M3 Insect Media (PDF)
• TC-100 Insect Medium (PDF)
• TNM-FH Insect Media (PDF)
• Waymouth Medium MB
• Williams' Medium E