Ultra-Web synthetic surfaces create a culturing substrate that resembles structural components within the basement membrane or extracellular matrix and offer cells in vivo-like fibrillar topographies
Corning has introduced four new products featuring the Ultra-Web synthetic surface technology.
This breakthrough 3D nanofibre technology, which was gained through a recent agreement with SurModics and Donaldson, will be applied to two of Corning's 96-well microplates and two 100mm tissue-culture dishes.
Customers will now have access to products that mimic in vivo cell growth conditions, leading to improved outcomes in cell culture, cell-based bioassays and other in vitro-related applications.
Ultra-Web synthetic surfaces are more stable, more consistent from lot to lot, and animal component free.
This technology also enables more reproducible and biologically meaningful results in an easy-to-use, cost-effective and time-efficient manner for cell research and cell-related applications.
"Our customers with cell-biology research and cell-based, high-throughput screening (HTS) applications for drug discovery and development have been looking to us for products that better mimic in vivo cell growth conditions," said Michael McFarland, business technology director, Corning Life Sciences.
"The introduction of our new 96-well microplates and tissue-culture dishes clearly demonstrates our commitment to developing innovative technologies that exceed our customers' demands and provide them with the solutions they need to maximise results".
Corning Life Sciences signed an agreement with SurModics and Donaldson in May 2006, through which it now provides worldwide strategic marketing, manufacturing and distribution of nanofibre cell culture products utilizing the Ultra-Web synthetic surface technology.
96-well microplates and 100mm tissue culture dishes are the first products resulting from the strategic partnership, with others in development.
Corning Life Sciences helps customers succeed by providing innovative, high-quality products and services in the areas of polymer science, biochemistry and molecular biology, glass melting and forming, surface modification and characterisation science.
Corning cell-culture and assay products include tissue culture dishes, six- and 24-well multiwell plates, 96-, 384- and 1536-well microplates, roller bottles, flasks and Cellstack culture chambers.
The 96-well microplates and 100mm tissue culture dishes became available in April 2007 in two versions - a synthetic, untreated nanofibre surface and one with a proprietary, polyamine surface modification.
Corning will continue to develop new products utilising the Ultra-Web synthetic surface technology.
