Sentences with word «microwell»

After a process of trial and error, the cells were placed and cultured in microwells with the probes, and the cells continued to maintain cell activity.

Cards dotted with a series of microwells housing three strains of yeast will be activated (via a hydrating injection) at different points along an 18 - month timeline.

Now, researchers at Toyohashi Tech, at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, have developed a novel cell - manipulation tool that can trap and release single cells in a parallel arrangement in open - top microwells.

This involved culturing two liver cells (hepatocytes) that can act as a functional organ unit on artificial membranes fabricated with microwell patterns.

By necessity of the technology cells from each mouse and time point need to be sorted into individual microwell plates.

For low - burden suspects, commercial laboratory - based microwell titer tests are the most sensitive.

The cells were then released and placed in an array of microwells,» Nagai said.

The proposed manipulation system makes it possible to place cells in a microwell array and observe the adherence, spreading, culture, and death of the cells.

The microwells are coated with an ECM protein called fibronectin that promotes cell binding and creates growth conditions identical to the microenvironment found inside cells.

By coating the microwells in different patterns, the scientists altered the organisation of ECM around cells and compared the morphologies of the bile caniculi and the direction of their growth.

Once settled in the microwell, the circulating tumor cells were burst open and the proteins released from inside each cell were separated according to differences in size or mass.

To do so, they placed each rare cell in a microwell (with a diameter roughly half the width of a human hair).

Regarding production costs, Miller said, «Using our technique, it costs around $ 30 to fabricate 100,000 microwells.

Protein - protein and protein - ligand interactions Using BRET, it is now possible to measure protein - ligand or protein - protein interactions in a microwell format.