Ease of Use

• Microspheres can be plated out into 96-well format for rapid microscopic or spectroscopic analysis
• Polysaccharide hydrogel spheres allow easy 3D culture
• Simplified passage, no need for trypsinisation, easy to filter and manipulate
• Microsphere encapsulation allows target clonal-colonies to be easily selected and separated from growth medium and remainder cells
• Microspheres may be dissolved in order to free cells for subsequent assay steps or transfections

Applications

• In vitro spectroscopic cell-assays can be performed within the polymer microsphere enabling drug toxicity, cell migration/motility and cellular invasiveness to be investigated
• Aqueous polymer spheres are compatible with caspase activity assay, ATP, Resazurin & LDH release