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CellerityTM meets customer needs
for automated cell culture
The launch of CellerityTM, Tecan’s dedicated system for automated cell culture, was met with resounding enthusiasm at the Lab Automation 2005 show in San José, California, this past February. The pierceable cap of the Corning RoboFlask™ vessel helps maintain a sealed environment during media exchange. It can be removed for manual access.
Delegates visiting the Tecan stand and guests at a specially held seminar were thrilled to see Cellerity in action and all signs show that it promises to be the most affordable, compact and flexible instrument on the market for cell culture and maintenance. The new system can be relied upon to automate all standard cell culture processes such as passaging, splitting, counting and plating. It can simultaneously grow different cell lines and maintain them in parallel. Cellerity is the latest product to result from Tecan working together with
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partner companies who are leaders in their own particular fields. In the development of Cellerity and its corresponding consumables, Tecan, Corning® and Invitrogen GIBCO® have directly responded to the needs of laboratories faced with the constant demand for a reliable, timely and consistent supply of high-quality cells. Cellerity is based on the Freedom EVO® 200 platform with an eight-tip liquid handling arm (LiHa) which has four channels for handling cells and four for adding sterile liquids such as media,
additives or buffers. An integrated robotic manipulator (RoMa) arm transports plates and flasks around the workspace. The RoMa directly accesses all pipetting stations, incubators, storage devices and other modules. The system can handle automation-friendly cell culture flasks. All pipetting and cell manipulation steps are performed within a laminar flow sterile hood or optionally a class II biosafety cabinet. The robotic incubator controls CO2, temperature and relative humidity and can hold up to 1000 of both flasks and assay plates. CellGEM™, the new Cellerity control software for Cell Growth,