The most reliable and easiest to use cell harvester

A compact, cost effective and easy to maintain 96-well filter plate or filter mat formatted cell harvester. It is equipped with user-friendly controls for either manual or automated operation, for either 1 reservoir for or multiple reservoirs for multi buffer treatments for assays.

Automated safety shut offs and an auto sensor eliminates spillage of contaminants. An automated cleaning cycle and switching valves ensure system reliability and durability.

The Cell Harveater96 operation and features

• Microplate or Microtubes contents are transferred via a unique and controlled aqueous wash cycle, designed to gently suspend adherent biologies.
• Each of the 96 wells is individually processed by a unique flow tip design which washes the well wall from the top down, while regulating well levels.
• The suspended material is aspirated from the bottom of the well and drawn directly into the sterile glass fiber filter map which is pressure sealed between a double "O" ring arrangement.
• Biologies are collected onto targets on a 8 x 12 grid with 9 mm centers making them quantifiable by a wide range of measuring instruments such as a scintillation counter.

Tomtec offers two versions, manual for small budget-conscience labs and a more automated version for high-end BioPharma labs and research facilities.

The manual system is equipped with a simple push and hold controls interface, while the automated version can be programmed with up to 16 unique procedures. Both versions are based on the same core industrial design.

Applications

• Cell proliferation assays including titrated thymidine uptake assays.
• Cytotoxicity assays.
• Receptor binding assays.
• Nucleic acid degradation.
• Trichloroacetic acid preparations.
• Cell wash station for adherent cell assays.
• Can be configured for either filter mat assays or filter plate assays.