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. 2025 Aug 8;7:1612903. doi: 10.3389/ftox.2025.1612903

TABLE 4.

Selection of commercially available, animal-component-free media with a proprietary formulation for CHO and HEK293 suspension cells.

Media Name Cell Lines References
4Cell® SmartCHO; 4Cell® XtraCHO CHO Wynne et al. (2025); Reger et al. (2023)
ActiCHO CHO Reinhart et al. (2019); Fan et al. (2018)
BalanCD CHO CHO Schwarz et al. (2020)
CD CHO CHO Reinhart et al. (2019); Fan et al. (2018); Cain et al. (2013)
FortiCHO CHO Xu et al. (2019)
HyClone CDM4CHO CHO Rodrigues et al. (2012); Paredes et al. (2013)
PowerCHO-2 CD CHO Fan et al. (2018)
BalanCD HEK293 HEK293 L’Abbé et al. (2018); Schwarz et al. (2020)
Expi293 expression medium HEK293 Fang et al. (2017), Vazquez-Lombardi et al. (2018)
FreeStyle™ 293;
F17 expression medium
HEK293 Wenzel et al. (2020); Jang et al. (2022); Kim et al. (2022)
HEK TF, HEK FS_2 HEK293 Marchetti (2022); Schneider et al. (2021)