Cell Culture Quality Control

Quality control is an important aspect of cell and tissue culture. Remotely monitor cell culture quality control within your incubator. Analyze and optimize cell culture growth conditions, cell morphology, and observe time-dependent transient events without user intervention. Track cell growth over extended periods of time using cell confluence curves. Image multiple user-selected areas from within various microliter plates, tissue culture flasks and dishes. Optimize and define cell culture regimes and accurately assess cell culture monolayer distribution. “Quality is important in all aspects of tissue culture. The quality of materials used (cell lines, media and other reagents) will affect the quality of the cultures and the subsequent scientific data and products derived from them. The main areas of quality control that are of concern for tissue culture are. The quality of the reagents and materials. The cell line integrity and identification. The avoidance of microbial contamination. The sourcing of cell lines can have an important effect on quality; freshly imported cell lines are a major source of contamination. The advantages of obtaining cell lines from a recognized source such as a ECACC culture collection are that the cultures will be: Contaminant free. Authenticated by use of short tandem repeat profiling for human cell lines, and determination of the species of origin by DNA barcoding for other species Supplied with a detailed data sheet. Once cell lines have been obtained from a reputable source it is important to implement master and working cell banking procedures and the associated quality control steps such as routine testing for microbial contaminants and confirming the identity of cultures” (NIH).

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Cell Culture Quality Control