More Yield, Less Resources and Waste
Traditional cell culture methods often require multiple dishes, plates, or flasks, resulting in a substantial amount of plastic waste. CellRaft® Technology minimizes the use of these consumables by isolating and culturing individual cells on CellRaft Arrays.
- Reduce costs associated with media and plastics
- Improve experimental efficiency
- Enable optimal resource utilization while ensuring high-quality results
CellRaft ArrayConsumables containing thousands of microwells (containing CellRafts) for spatial segregation, imaging, and isolation of single cells, monoclonal colonies, or 3D cultures. More vs Limiting Dilution | ||
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CellRaft Technology | Limiting DilutionA statistical cloning approach where cells are diluted to low density to “hopefully” seed one cell per well; commonly used but can be low-efficiency for difficult-to-clone lines. More | |
Amount of Culture Media | 5 mL | 1738 mL |
Monoclonal Colonies | 2,710 (confirmed clones) | 2,710 (unknown clonality)* |
Cultureware Consumables | 1 CellRaft Array | 191 96-well plates |
Amount of Extracellular Matrix | 2 mL | 869 mL |
Hands-on Time | 1 hour | 100+ hours |
CellRaft Array vs Limiting Dilution | ||
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Features | CellRaft Array | Limiting Dilution |
Clonal colonies | 2,269 (confirmed clones) | 2,269 (unconfirmed)* |
Consumables for seeding cells | 1 CellRaft Array | 447 96-well plates |
Amount of media | 5 mL | 4,269 mL |
* Assuming limiting dilutionA statistical cloning approach where cells are diluted to low density to “hopefully” seed one cell per well; commonly used but can be low-efficiency for difficult-to-clone lines. More at 10% efficiency.
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