ROCHE says its new Cedex Bio HT analyser gives highly reliable determination of metabolites and substrates in mammalian and microbial cell fermentation. The system delivers precise analytics, it says, to allow flexible adaption of additional test menus, and can process…
Category: cell culture
Electrocompetent cells promise higher electroporation efficiency
A NEW product from Amsbio, CloneCatcher Gold DH5G electrocompent E coli cells, exhibit extremely high electroporation efficiencies that approach the theoretical maximum of 3.4×10^11cfu/ug pUC19 DNA. Transferring exogenous DNA into E coli is a standard laboratory method for cloning genes…
Scalable bioreactor reduces experiment turnaround times
A NEW automated bioreactor system for parallel cell culture or fermentation has been launched by TAP Biosystems. Ambr 250 consists of a workstation which can automate independent parallel control of 12 or 24 single-use 250ml bioreactors for cell culture or…
Bioreactor flask range bought by Wheaton
THE CELLINE range of bioreactor flasks for antibody and protein production has been acquired by Wheaton Industries from Wilson Wolf Manufacturing. Wheaton has also entered into an agreement with Wilson Wolf for further product development in high density cell culture…
Fish balls may reduce live animal tests
A NOVEL technique involving the use of structures built out of rainbow trout liver cells could reduce the need for lab animal tests in chemical safety studies, a report published today says. Researchers led by Professor Awadhesh Jha of Plymouth…
Autoprep boosts research into single cell genomics
THE EMERGING field of single-cell genomics is enabling scientists to study previously unavailable genomic signatures from a single cell. Fluidigm believes its C1 system will prove to be the next big advance in the field. The C1 single-cell autoprep system…
Biomimetic 3D models of the human central nervous system
TAP Biosystems is collaborating with scientists at the Open University (OU), in Milton Keynes, UK to produce robust 3D human central nervous system (CNS) tissue models for use in drug discovery and pre-clinical testing. The collaboration will run for three…
Selecting embryos for chromosome numbers boosts IVF success rate
A SIGNIFICANT increase in the success rate of in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) procedures is reported today by BlueGnome, with the results of the first randomised study of pre-implantation chromosome analysis. The company’s 24sure array platform was employed in the study, published…
Analyse and sort hiPS clusters automatically
REPROGRAMMING somatic cells into human induced pluripotent stem cell (hiPS) clusters brings with it the tantalising potential to create disease-specific and patient-specific human cell products. This in turn creates a need to produce a high number of hiPS cell lines,…
Proliferation assays make for easier 3D cell culture
AMSBIO says its new range of Cultrex 3D proliferation assays make downstream 3D cell culture applications much easier to manage. 3D cell culture is a booming technique, the company notes, with a rapidly-growing library of research papers from researchers exploiting…