Cerillo Duet Co-Culture System

Features

How does it work?

• Same sizes as a normal 96-well plate: compatible with virtually all existing microtiter-plate readers (incl., of course, the Cerillo Stratus).
• Wells (square and larger than the wells of 96-well plates: 36 per plate) are paired in duets and separated by a porous semi-permeable membrane (0.8 micrometer filter).
• Populations (e.g. bacteria, viruses or fungi) are separated by the membrane and are too large to move through it. Substances they produce/process/absorb can, however, move through the membrane.
• In this way, the interactions between 2 different populations can be determined and measured, for example: bacterial colony 1 produces substance A that inhibits / boosts / influences the growth of bacterial colony 2 (on the other side of the membrane).
• Through the Stratus plate reader, for example, the growth (and its rate) of populations can be determined (because the number of individuals in a population affects color saturation).
• The duets can be detached from the plate, which makes preparatory work/sampling and/or other measurements even easier.
• Available products: Duet Co-culture system CCU-1000, Duet refill packs CCU-3600, Duet Co-culture bundle CCU-B108, Phage Duet Co-culture system PCC-1000, Phage Duet refills PCC-3600, Phage Co-culture bundle PCC-B108.

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