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What are you looking at?
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Corning's specialized surface for preventing cell attachment.
What is ULA?
100
This premium treatment to the surface can help cells to attach better than TCT
What is CellBIND?
100
A synthetic hydrogel that can be used to culture cancer cells and iPSC in 3D.
What is Synthegel?
100
Trademarked name for Corning Permeable support.
What is Transwell?
100
Disease state that begins with a C whose research and drug testing benefits immensely from 3D cell culture.
What is cancer?
100
These pipette tips have a larger opening for handling spheroids and organoids.
What are wide bore tips?
100
This flask can generate approximately 12,000 uniform spheroids.
What is the 12K Elplasia flask?
100
What are cells (or spheroids) in Elplasia Technology?
200
A 3D product that generates a single uniform spheroid in each well.
What is the spheroid plate?
200
This color plate is typically recommended for luminescent assays.
What is white?
200
This Matrigel variety is abbreviated GFR.
What is growth factor reduced?
200
The trademarked name for a permeable support with a black dyed membrane.
What is FluoroBlok?
200
These advanced 3D cultures derived from stem cells require a hydrogel such as Matrigel matrix.
What are organoids?
200
This non-enzymatic solution can break down Matrigel without damaging 3D structures.
What is Cell Recovery Solution?
200
A product line extension of the 12K flask that is in microplate format
What is the open well plate?
200
This plant is where Corning Transwells are made and is in an area known for great seafood
What is Kennebunk?
300
One of the main differentiating features of Corning spheroid plates that allow for fluorescent and luminescent assays.
What are black sidewalls?
300
A common source of this biological coating is rat tails and can help cells attach in 2D.
What is collagen?
300
This version of Matrigel would be recommended if a customer is doing fluorescent imaging
What is phenol red free Matrigel?
300
Corning had IP around this Transwell design feature which makes media exchange easier to perform.
What is a center hanging design?
300
The product you should suggest if you hear the term barrier model
What is a permeable support or Transwell?
300
Cell suspensions can be passed through this product to help ensure a single cell suspension prior to seeding 3D Cell cultures.
What is a cell strainer?
300
This is the largest number of transwells or permeable supports that can go in one plate
What is 96?
300
What are cells migrating (or invading) through a permeable support (or Transwell)?
400
This competitor's round bottom sphera plates are only offered in clear formats.
Who is Thermo?
400
This amino acid based coating helps cells attach and is very commonly used with microplates.
What is PDL or PLL?
400
One of our biggest Matrigel competitors in the US.
Who is Cultrex? (or Geltrex)
400
5 and 8 micron membrane pore sizes are typically used for this kind of assay.
What are chemotaxis, migration or invasion assays?
400
The reason a customer might prefer spheroids from 12K flasks over standard flat ULA flasks
What is uniformity or consistency?
400
We recommend these special tips for handling sticky substances like organoids.
What are maximum recovery tips?
400
A 3D competitor that has clear microwell plates that do not form spherical structures and requires a pre-wetting solution.
Who is Stemcell technologies or Aggrewell?
400
The new PLM for ECMs and coatings
Who is Sarah Loucks?
500
An Elplasia product that is for smaller cell clusters and is not ULA coated?
What is square well Elplasia?
500
This material is a lower cost alternative to glass for high content imaging assays.
What is Cyclic Olefin film bottom?
500
The appropriate measurement unit to define Matrigel concentration to ensure experiment to experiment consistency.
What is protein concertation or mg/mL?
500
This membrane is transparent enough to allow users to observe cells using a microscope.
What is PET?
500
This term describes cellular models in which the cells have a distinct top and bottom.
What is polarized? (apical/basal)
500
This kit of reagents helps with imaging deeper into 3D structures.
What is Corning 3D Clear?
500
The next iteration of Elplasia flasks coming soon!
What is the 48K flask?
500
The Corning product that is used to make this dome of organoids
What is Matrigel or Matrigel for Organoid Culture