The Lampire Cell Culture Bag is a device for growing hybridomas for antibody production, stem cells, tumour cells, plant cells, as well as recombinant protein production, DNA/RNA extraction and more.
Developed initially for internal Monoclonal research, Lampire scientists further refined the bags for utilisation by researchers worldwide.
Current bag sizes range from 50ml up to two litres.
'Customer's in pharmaceutical, biotechnology and academia use the Cell Culture Bags for many different applications and protocols in laboratory research through production scale up,' said Barbara Quinter, specialty products manager, Lampire.
'Historically, cell growth has been conducted in T-flasks and roller bottles, which typically require additional equipment and protocol steps to ensure exchange of nutrients and waste.' With the Lampire Cell Culture Bag, cell cultures may be grown in a CO2 incubator just utilising desired cells and the appropriate media formulation.
Gregory F Krug, president of Lampire, said: 'Compact culture vessels enhance cell culture productivity per incubator space.
'Cell growth volumes within incubator space, such as in the Caron Products 6024 reach-in CO2 incubator with high wire rack capacity, provides for 96 one-litre cell culture bags.
'This is three times as much media volume compared to flasks and roller bottles.
'Due to the higher media capacity, we've experienced three-four times the cell growth, as well as higher protein and antibody yields.' The bags are presterilised and individually wrapped.
