Corning Cell Culture Selection Guide Corning is helping to make your research possibilities real with new and innovative products. Introduction We have recently advanced our microplate line to include many enhancmements and new products. Check out the Corning is pleased to present our Life Sciences Selection Guide. In this guide, you will find a selection of our newest, new 384 well solid, low-volume and Poly-D-Lysine micro- most innovative and most requested products. plates, as well as 384 and 1536 well microplates with generic bar codes in the Microplates Section. For more than 150 years, Corning Incorporated has leveraged its materials science and process engineering expertise to For up-to-date information on Corning Life Sciences’ collaborate closely with customers worldwide — turning comprehensive range of products and services, go to what were once only possibilities into breakthrough realities. www.corning.com/lifesciences where you can access: Q New Products Information One such reality is the Corning® Epic® System, a high- throughput label-free screening platform based on optical Q Technical Information including: biosensor technology.The system performs both biochemical - Application Notes and cell-based drug discovery applications and offers drug - Instruction Manuals developers the ability to evaluate promising new drug - Product Bulletins targets. It also allows for the observation of direct biological Q Educational Opportunities interactions not previously detectable in high-throughput Q Product Catalog Information applications. Q Product Literature For hard-to-attach cell lines, Corning offers a number of Q Complete Distributor Information modified or synthetic surfaces including Corning CellBIND® Surface, Ultra-Low Attachment, and Ultra-Web™ Surfaces. For additional product information, please visit If you are trying to prevent or reduce attachment, we offer www.corning.com/lifesciences, or call 1.800.492.1110. plates, dishes, flasks and the CellSTACK® Culture Chambers Customers outside the United States, please call with our Ultra-Low Attachment surface. We also offer two 1.978.442.2200 or contact your local support office new vessel formats, the HYPERFlask™ Cell Culture Vessel (see back cover). and Low Profile flask, for conserving incubator space. Try one of our newest innovations and see if it can help to make your research possibilities real. Grow enough cells in one 1720 cm2 Grow more in vivo-like cells on Corning’s Epic System, the new Improve cell attachment and HYPERFlask Cell Culture Vessel to Ultra-Web™ synthetic surfaces. high-throughput, label-free yield with our Corning CellBIND seed 2,000 microplates. detection technology allows surface – a nonbiological surface researchers to bring drugs to with high oxygen levels. market faster. Cell Culture ONLINE CELL CULTURE AND ASSAY TRAINING .... 2 PRODUCT ORDERING INFORMATION ........... 3 OVERVIEW .............................. 4 INNOVATIVE CELL CULTURE SURFACES FOR THE 21ST CENTURY .................... 5 CORNING ® CELLBIND ® SURFACE .............. 6 ULTRA-LOW ATTACHMENT DISHES, PLATES, FLASKS, AND CELLSTACK ® CULTURE CHAMBERS .. 9 CORNING LABWARE WITH ULTRA-WEB™ Low Profile Flasks, page 14 SURFACES .............................. 10 CELL CULTURE FLASKS ..................... 12 CELL CULTURE DISHES ..................... 16 MULTIPLE WELL PLATES .................... 18 TRANSWELL® PERMEABLESUPPORTS .......... 23 CULTURE TUBES .......................... 28 ROLLERBOTTLES ......................... 29 CELLSTACK® CULTURE CHAMBERS ............. 31 CELLCUBE® SYSTEMS ...................... 33 HYPERFlask™ Cell Culture Vessel, E-CUBE® CULTURE SYSTEM ................. 33 page 15, 30 SPINNERFLASKS ......................... 34 ERLENMEYERFLASKS ...................... 39 CELLSCRAPERSANDLIFTERS ................ 41 TECHNICALAPPENDIX ..................... 42 Corning Cell Culture Surfaces ................. 42 Characteristics of Corning Plasticware ............ 44 Chemical Compatibility of Corning Plasticware ...... 45 Characteristics of Corning Centrifuge Tubes ........ 45 CellSTACK Culture Chambers, page 31 1 CELLCULTURE Online Cell Culture and Assay Training The Corning Scientific Seminar Series is a series of free online technical What attendees had to say presentations that provide novel tips, best practices and proven techniques about past seminars: to help advance your research. Delivered by scientists, these one hour “We are not getting information sessions have proven useful for technicians as well as for researchers who like this from anywhere. The sem- have been doing cell culture and assays for years. inar was amazing, very useful to Join us online for an upcoming session or download any of our previously my work. Thanks for organizing recorded sessions. New topics are added monthly. Former topics include: these sessions.” Q Cell Culture Contamination – Every Researcher’s Nightmare! “Great tips! I’ll pass along Q Effects of Cell Culture Surfaces on Cellular Behavior information I learned here to my colleagues to let them know how Q Detecting, Removing and Managing Mycoplasma Contamination we should conduct cell culture Q Grow More Cells! Scaling Up Cell Production properly. Many thanks again indeed.” Q Growing Happier Cells “I use your seminars as training Q Growing Cells on Transwell Inserts – Tips and Techniques for new employees and estimate Q Life and Death In Vitro - Growth and Toxicity they save my company more than $24,000 a year in training costs.” Q HeLa Cells - A Blessing or a Curse? Q More In Vivo-like Cell Cultures and Better Assays with Permeable Supports Q Optimizing Assay Performance through Microplate Attributes and Equipment Setting Q Primary Cell Culture – Tips and Techniques for Getting Started Q Solving Cell Culture Problems Q Using Frozen vs. Continuously Cultured Cells for HTS Register at www.corning.com/lifesciences All attendees Training is co-sponsored by: receive a certificate of completion. 2 Visit www.corning.com/lifesciences for additional product and technical information. CELLCULTURE Product Ordering Information Ordering Products Direct from Corning For our U.S. customers who currently have Corning accounts, you can order direct through our Customer Service group or online: Tel.: 800.492.1110, 978.442.2200 Fax: 978.442.2476 Email: [email protected] Web: www.corning.com/lifesciences Hours of Operation: Monday to Friday, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. (Eastern Standard Time) Customers outside of the U.S., please contact your local Corning distributor. Visit www.corning.com/lifesciences and click on “Contact Us.” Phone/Fax Orders For each order, customers should provide the Corning product number, product description, and desired quantity. You should also include your billing and shipping address and your Corning account number. Online Orders In order to purchase Corning products online, please visit the Corning Life Sciences website at www.corning.com/lifesciences. Click on register/login and complete the online registration form. Customers using credit cards may immediately place orders. Full Service Direct accounts with account specific contract pricing will need to establish a direct account with Corning Customer Service before online transactions can be made. You can complete the online registration form or contact Corning Customer Service directly at 1.800.492.1110 in order to establish a direct account with Corning. Ordering Products through our Distribution Partners Customers can purchase Corning products from any one of our more than 50 authorized distributors. See our complete listing of Corning distributors Online at www.corning.com/lifesciences. Our distribution partners can offer our customers a variety of value added services from local inventory and service, to managed services, and preferred programs. Please contact your distributor of choice for more details. Pricing Prices shown on the Corning Life Sciences website (in our online www.corning.com/lifesciences catalog) reflect our current suggested U.S. list price. For customer specific pricing information, please contact Corning Customer Service or your authorized Corning Distributor. Product Return Policy To return product, contact your local customer service representative. In some countries, the order and lot number details are required. Please have this information available to obtain a Return Authorization Number. This Return Authorization Number must be referenced on the outside of the shipping carton. Returns without an appropriate Return Authorization Number will be refused and returned at customer expense. 3 CELLCULTURE Overview DESIGNEDFORPERFORMANCE Corning Life Sciences offers a full line of cell culture products that are manufactured under strict process controls guaranteeing consistent product performance. All Corning Life Sciences plastics manufacturing facilities are ISO 9001:9002 registered. ISO registration is recognized worldwide as a standard of excellence for quality systems. In addition, customers can now obtain a Certificate of Compliance or product description for any Corning® or Costar® cell culture product from our website. This certificate details lot-specific information on component materials, sterility testing, pyrogen testing, cell attachment, and growth characteristics. Also available are detailed drawings that highlight product dimensions. Drawings are available simply by calling your local Corning Life Sciences office. ADDITIONALQUALITYASSURANCES Nonpyrogenic Certification Most Corning and Costar cell culture products are certified nonpyrogenic