CELLSTAR® Product Line with New Cell-Repellent Surface

Dec. 11, 2012 - PRLog -- The cell-repellent effect of the new surface is achieved through a stable chemical modification of the plastic. Unlike the conventional CELLSTAR® suspension surface, the surface modification even prevents attachment of semi-adherent and adherent cell lines such as macrophages.

The cell-repellent surface inhibits very effectively interaction between the cell culture vessel and cells. Therefore, it supports in particular the formation of spheroids, which are playing an increasingly important role as 3D models in pharmaceutical research. Additionally, the cell-repellent surface supports the formation of "embryoid bodies" – non-adherent cell clusters that occupy a key position in cultivating stem cells.

The new CELLSTAR® cell culture vessels with cell-repellent surface are free of detectable DNases, RNases and human DNA. They contain no detectable endotoxins or cytotoxic substances, are sterile and have a shelf life of two years. Initially, Greiner Bio-One will offer the cell-repellent surface for 96 well microplates with F or U bottom, 6 well multiwell plates and the 100 mm cell culture dish.

Cell culture vessels with a cell-resistant surface are part of the CELLSTAR® product line from Greiner Bio-One.

Greiner Bio-One will be attending the annual meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology December 16th – 18th 2012, in San Francisco, CA. Booth No. 1131.

Greiner Bio-One North America, Inc., located in Monroe, North Carolina, provides product manufacturing, distribution logistics and product application support to clinical laboratories, research laboratories at Universities, startup companies, and to the world’s largest hospitals, Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology corporations. Greiner Bio-One’s products offer solutions for the collection of human samples and  plastic labware products specifically related to the medical research field.