New Reinnervate whitepaper includes details on live 3D cell imaging in 3D cell culture

New Reinnervate whitepaper includes details on live 3D cell imaging in 3D cell culture using alvetex^®

 

Sedgefield, UK. 30 January 2012. Reinnervate, the leading expert in 3D cell culture, has today announced the release of a new whitepaper to help scientists make the switch from traditional 2D cell culture to 3D cell growth.

 

The whitepaper entitled “Review of imaging techniques compatible with 3D culture of cells’’ covers many different approaches for the visualisation of cells growing in three dimensions, such as that achieved using the company’s alvetex^® 3D scaffold. As well as discussing novel applications for the use of live 3D imaging of cells, the whitepaper also provides a solution to the daily challenge of visual inspection to check the health and growth of a culture when growing cells in 3D.

 

“We are delighted to finally bring scientists a solution for live cell imaging and daily health checks for cells growing in 3D” commented Barry Lynch, Marketing Manager at Reinnervate. “Customers constantly express the desire to be able to grow cells in a more in vivo-like environment, but so far, the ability to check each day for growth and cell health using conventional light microscopes has not been possible with 3D cell cultures. With the publication of this new whitepaper, we can now demonstrate a simple and effective solution. By removing a concern voiced by researchers using cell culture, this advance will make 3D cell culture a much more routine and accessible technique.”

 

The whitepaper can be downloaded at www.reinnervate.com/alvetex/protocols/visualisation

 

About alvetex^®

 

Alvetex is a unique polystyrene material that provides a robust and inert scaffold for cells to grow and form complex 3D structures in the laboratory, mimicking the normal growth and formation of tissues in the body. Reinnervate has extensively tested and validated alvetex^® with a large number of cell types, including liver, skin, cancer and stem cells, all of which have important applications in basic research into cell development, disease modelling and drug safety screening.

 

Alvetex has been launched globally in several formats: a 12-well culture plate, 6-well and 12-well inserts and a deep petri dish. These formats provide researchers with an exceptional degree of versatility in how they choose to construct different 3D cell culture models. Through enabling alternative applications, such as long-term 3D cell culture over several weeks, 3D cell growth at air/liquid interface and 3D cell growth with different media constituents, to be performed simply and routinely, Reinnervate continues to make genuine 3D cell culture a reality for researchers today.

 

Alvetex was named among the winners of The Scientist magazine’s “Top 10 Life Science Innovations of 2010” and was selected among the most technologically significant of 2010 in the 49th Annual R&D100 Awards.

 

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