Viable Cells

Viability is the ability of a thing (a living organism, an artificial system, an idea, etc.) to maintain itself or recover its potentialities.

Viability or viable may refer to:

Biology, medicine or ecology

* Viability selection, the selection of individual organisms who can survive until they are able to reproduce
* Fetal viability, the ability of a fetus to survive outside of the uterus
* Genetic viability, chance of a population of plants or animals to avoid the problems of inbreeding
* Minimum viable population, a lower bound on the population of a species, such that it can survive in the wild
* Population viability analysis, a species-specific method of risk assessment frequently used in conservation biology
* Viable count, of viable cells

Business

* Viability study, a study of the profitability of a business concept which is to be converted into a business
* Minimum viable product, in product development, a strategy used for fast and quantitative market testing of a product or product feature

Other uses

* Viable Paradise, an annual one-week writing workshop held each autumn on Martha's Vineyard
* Viable system model, a scientific model by Stafford Beer of the organization of a viable or autonomous system
* Viable system theory, a modelling approach that enables complex strategic and operative business and financial systems to be modelled and explored.
* Viability theory, an area of mathematics that studies the evolution of dynamical systems under constraints to the system's state

See also

* Viability assay, an assay to determine the ability of cells or tissues to maintain or recover its viability
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* Via (disambiguation)

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