Cell Culture

Getting started with cell culture can seem like an overwhelming step: cells are sensitive to shear stress, have a high risk of contamination and are very demanding concerning the right choice of process parameters. Check our blog post for all you need to start shaking or running your bioreactor with mammalian cells, insect cells and plant cells.

What is one of the worst things that could go wrong in your laboratory? Ask anyone working to a deadline in a bioprocess laboratory and a likely answer would be contamination of their cultures. Contamination can be hard to trace back to a source and difficult to remove if it is present in your working environment. Fortunately, there are a few simple steps you can follow to minimise the chances of this happening to you.

Continuous culture is best explained by discussing the basic components of the process. The theory is well known and simple to understand: Medium is both added and removed throughout much of the fermentation in order to keep cell numbers in balance. Actual execution can be difficult for starters, as there are more pumps, tubes and considerations than a simple batch fermentation.

Mammalian cell culture bioprocesses are increasingly gaining importance in the biopharmaceutical industry. Due to the high demand of product quality, the incubated shaker as a production unit can become a limiting factor after a certain point. Learn more and watch the webinar at the end of this post.