AMSBIO says there is a growing need for more complete and physiologically predictive cancer invasion models, and so has launched its new 3D Culture 96-Well BME cell invasion assay to address this. The BME (basement membrane extract) assay offers a…
Category: cell culture
Lonza cell culture media added to Sartorius portfolio
SARTORIUS Stedim Biotech (SSB) is taking over the global sales and marketing of Swiss company Lonza’s cell culture media and buffers used in the manufacture of protein-based therapeutics and vaccines. As part of the same agreement announced today, Lonza is…
Detection time for mycoplasma reduced from a month to a day with PCR test
ROCHE reports that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted the use of the Roche MycoTool PCR-based mycoplasma detection test for release testing of one of the company’s biopharmaceutical products. This makes MycoTool the first commercially-available mycoplasma polymerase…
Cooling stage is ‘breakthrough’ in cryogenic cell imaging
DIFFERENT imaging techniques offer different advantages to the researcher, and the holy grail of microscopy would be to combine all the benefits of the various techniques without any of their disadvantages. Linkam says that its new Cryo-Correlative Cooling Stage moves…
Determining optimum conditions for large scale stem cell culture
AN INDUSTRY consortium has been launched to optimise media and processes in order to manufacture stem cells and natural killer cells at volume. Based at the Centre for Commercialization of Regenerative Medicine (CCRM), a Canadian non-profit organisation, the consortium includes…
Take control of CO2 mixtures during live cell imaging
THE OKOLAB Bold Line CO2 controller, available in the USA from distributor Warner Instruments, give the scientist full control of atmospheric gas concentrations during imaging work on live cells. This full digital gas controller adds CO2 to air or N2,…
Qualified human feeder cells for iPSC reprogramming
A NEW range of human feeder cells from Amsbio are qualified for induced Pluripotent Stem Cell (iPSC) reprogramming. These newborn human foreskin fibroblasts, available under the trade name NuFF-RQ, are validated to support iPSC colony generation, providing an optimised feeder…
Better cell growth on these microplates
THE LARGE surface area of each well on the Krystal 24 microplate enables ‘unmatched’ cell growth, says Porvair Sciences. Each well holds a volume of 3.1ml, giving a large surface area, and the microplates are tissue culture treated to ensure…
New sorting cytometer from Bio-Rad
EAGER to launch a new cell sorting system for smaller laboratories and those seeking to offer cell sorting to individual researchers, Bio-Rad will launch its S3 cell sorter in January 2013. This is a rebadged system from Propel Labs, which…
How to engineer surfaces for specific cell adhesion properties
A NEW mimetic library of extracellular matrices has been launched by Amsbio. Including almost 300 biomimetics of fibronectin, vitronectin, laminin, and collagen, the new extracellular matrix (ECM) library should prove useful for engineering the surfaces of plates or scaffolds to achieve…