The latest concept in microplate design involving a gel base technology. The full functionality of conventional microplates with environmental buffering technology on-board reducing edge-effects and permitting extreme miniaturisation all in existing SBS format
1. At the cutting edge of cell based assays
Gel Base Bioreactor
Technology
March 2012
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2. The problem
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3. All chemical and biological processes are influenced by
environmental elements such as temperature, pH and
chemical composition.
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4. Environmental Concerns
Fluctuations Variations in
in thermal dissolved CO2
conditions
Cell
Based
Assays
Mechanical Alterations in
disturbances water media
(Vibrations etc) hydration
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5. Uncontrolled changes in any of these factors can exert unwanted
physical, chemical and/or biological effects on the
specimen/sample in question leading to poor reproducibility or
disruption of a given scientific and/or manufacturing process
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6. Negative outcomes
Increased Cellular
Heterogeneity stress
in cell
populations
Disruption
&
Poor
Reproducibility
Aberrant Retardation
gene of growth
expression
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7. With the emergence of high throughput and multiplexed
biological, chemical and materials screening, the use of multi-
welled assay plates has become standard for almost all automated
experimental and storage applications.
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8. However many of these experimental procedures are
compromised by positional inequalities between wells on outer
and inner locations on the micro-plate.
These inequalities or “edge effects” become increasingly apparent
as micro-plate densities increase.
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9. To improve reproducibility when conducting chemical and
biological experiments, optimal environmental conditions must be
maintained at all times.
To achieve this, it is often necessary to deploy costly and
cumbersome environmental control systems. These systems
dramatically reduce the experimental design flexibility of
automated screening platforms and often do not solve the
problem.
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10. Our solution
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11. Thermal Improved
Buffering Cell
Growth
Phase-lock
Technology
Prevents Better
evaporation well to well
consistency
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12. Side view and plan of gel plate
showing construction of wells of
plate surrounded by gel. Plate
Gel
Wells
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13. Loading in Incubator Un-loading out of incubator
Heat, CO2 passes into Gel down
thermal and concentration gradient
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14. A 384 well gel
buffered bioreactor
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15. Top view of the 384
bioreactor
plate
with gel buffering
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16. Thermal buffering
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17. 1.1
1
0.9
0.8
0.7
0.6 Cooling rate reduced
tx/t0 %
0.5
0.4
Thermal retention ~ 3 X Improved
0.3 SBS format plate
0.2
0.1
0
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35
Time (mins)
Comparison of cooling between normal and Biocroí plates
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18. Protection against evaporation
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19. Wells of 96 welled
plates were filled with
100ul serum free
culture medium and
then maintained in a
standard drying oven
set at 50ºC for 48
hours. (Data
expressed as
percentage volume
remaining after
incubation time.
(See plate diagram to
identify wells used in
all experiments).
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20. Improved cell growth
& reproducibility
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21. Buffered Plates Normal Plates
Wells of buffered and normal 96 well plates were seeded at (equally) low density with cells of immortalised cell line.
Prior to maintenance in a standard tissue culture incubator (set at 37C, 95% air/ 5% CO2) for 48 hours. Both buffered
and normal plates were placed in middle of incubator side by side.
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22. Non-insulated 96 well Insulated 96 well
14710 (1871)
16805 (1029)
12.7% 6.12%
DRASTIC
CV= REDUCTION OF
EDGE EFFECTS CV=
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23. The excellent environmental buffering properties of Biocroí plate
technologies allows miniaturisation of cell based assays down to
nanoliter volumes.
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24. High Content
Image of cells
reverse transfected
with SiGlo in a gel
buffered 192 nano
slide. (Volume
100nl)
Miniaturised 1000X
As compared to 96-
well plate assays
normally
performed at 100ul
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25. High Content Image of cells incubated in 100nl in a standard 384-well buffered plate
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26. Reproducibility of
spotting 50 nanoliter
siRNA in 384 buffered
gel plate
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27. Dried 50 nanoliter
siRNA spot
overlain with 100
nanoliter lung
carcinoma cells
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28. Advantages
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29. Increase in Proven reduction
throughput in edge effects
productivity
Substantial Improved data
decrease in quality
reagent & cell
usage
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Notes de l'éditeur
All chemical and biological processes are influenced by environmental elements such as temperature, pH and chemical composition. Uncontrolled changes in any of these factors can exert unwanted physical, chemical and/or biological effects on the specimen/sample in question leading to poor reproducibility or disruption of a given scientific and/or manufacturing process With the emergence of high throughput and multiplexed biological, chemical and materials screening, the use of multi-welled assay plates has become standard for almost all automated experimental and storage applications. However many of these experimental procedures compromised by positional inequalities between wells on outer and inner locations on the micro-plate. These inequalities or “edge effects” become increasingly apparent as micro-plate densities increase. To improve reproducibility when conducting chemical and biological experiments, optimal environmental conditions must be maintained at all times. To achieve this, it is often necessary to deploy costly and cumbersome environmental control systems which dramatically reduce experimental design flexibility automated screening platforms, often these interventions do not solve the problem.
All chemical and biological processes are influenced by environmental elements such as temperature, pH and chemical composition. Uncontrolled changes in any of these factors can exert unwanted physical, chemical and/or biological effects on the specimen/sample in question leading to poor reproducibility or disruption of a given scientific and/or manufacturing process With the emergence of high throughput and multiplexed biological, chemical and materials screening, the use of multi-welled assay plates has become standard for almost all automated experimental and storage applications. However many of these experimental procedures compromised by positional inequalities between wells on outer and inner locations on the micro-plate. These inequalities or “edge effects” become increasingly apparent as micro-plate densities increase. To improve reproducibility when conducting chemical and biological experiments, optimal environmental conditions must be maintained at all times. To achieve this, it is often necessary to deploy costly and cumbersome environmental control systems which dramatically reduce experimental design flexibility automated screening platforms, often these interventions do not solve the problem.
All chemical and biological processes are influenced by environmental elements such as temperature, pH and chemical composition. Uncontrolled changes in any of these factors can exert unwanted physical, chemical and/or biological effects on the specimen/sample in question leading to poor reproducibility or disruption of a given scientific and/or manufacturing process With the emergence of high throughput and multiplexed biological, chemical and materials screening, the use of multi-welled assay plates has become standard for almost all automated experimental and storage applications. However many of these experimental procedures compromised by positional inequalities between wells on outer and inner locations on the micro-plate. These inequalities or “edge effects” become increasingly apparent as micro-plate densities increase. To improve reproducibility when conducting chemical and biological experiments, optimal environmental conditions must be maintained at all times. To achieve this, it is often necessary to deploy costly and cumbersome environmental control systems which dramatically reduce experimental design flexibility automated screening platforms, often these interventions do not solve the problem.