Low evaporation plates for cell culture and high content analysis
Low evaporation plates
Incorporating large perimeter evaporative buffer zones, the Nunc Edge 96-well plates for cell-based assays eliminate well-to-well variability, while dramatically reducing the overall plate evaporation rate to less than 2 % after seven days of incubation. The buffer zones enable the use of all 96 wells, greatly reducing the edge effect commonly experienced in cell culture, while maintaining data consistency throughout the plate, resulting in more viable and healthy cell yields.
Reduced evaporation effectively maintains sample concentrations over long incubation periods. The prevention of cell death and toxicity in the plates’ outer wells allows results to remain more true to the population phenotype allowing more efficient, high throughput analysis. The flatness of these plates eliminates the occurrence of chromatic aberrations enabling efficient automated imaging. This results in a high image quality in cell-based assays, where multiple targets are simultaneously imaged and all the fluorescence from a single location needs to focus at the same point within the imaging system. Variations in reagent concentrations from assay washing/aspiration steps are also reduced.
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