CYTOO’s motility plates to study cell migration will be launched at the American Society for Cell Biology.
CYTOO plans to launch CYTOOplates Motility, based on CYTOO’s 2D+ Cell Culture Platform with its adhesive micropatterns, at the ASCB 2012 Annual meeting in San Francisco on the on December 15-19.
After sponsoring last year’s “World Cell Race”, CYTOO returns to ASCB 2012 to launch a new product to study cell migration for screening applications in both oncology and drug discovery.
“CYTOOplates Motility feature adhesive tracks of 4 different widths from 2.5 to 20 ?m allowing a wide range of applications including single vs collective cell migration, and cell pairing ”, explained Constantin Nelep, Sr. Product Manager of CYTOO.
“We have also seen our Motility products used in other application areas, such as directional neurite outgrowth assays.”
During ASCB 2012 meeting, CYTOO will also present the company’s 2D+ Cell Culture Platform, that was launched in July.
Based on the use of adhesive micropatterns to guide cell architecture and behavior in culture, this technology contrasts with traditional 2D+ culture where cells spread and move in an uncontrolled manner, introducing a considerable but unnoticed variability in cell function.
By defining the 2D topology of cell adhesion, 2D+ Technology enables the fine control of the spreading and 3D shapeof cultured cells in single- or multi-cellular configurations, resulting in control of cell contractility, cell polarity, organelle positioning, or cell division axis.
