Premier showing of a New Automated System for T-flask Cell Culture

The Automation Partnership (TAP) a world leading manufacturer of innovative automation for life science applications, unveils today on Stand 443 at LabAutomation 2006 its new automated cell culture system CompacT SelecT™, which has been designed for managing the process of preparing, culturing and harvesting cells in T-flasks and delivering them into assay-ready plates.

CompacT SelecT, which is slightly larger than a Class II safety cabinet, has been innovatively engineered as a smaller and more affordable version of TAP’s internationally proven SelecTä automated cell culture system, making this outstanding technology available to more pharmaceutical / biotech companies and academic institutions.

On stand TAP experts will be giving demonstrations every 30 minutes to show how CompacT SelecT can increase productivity by continuous unattended operation to simultaneously culture multiple different cell lines and automatically manipulate T-175 flasks using its unique anthropomorphic arm. Staff will describe how the cells produced can either be harvested or automatically plated into 96 and 384 well plates and will also detail how the sterility of the cell culture environment is preserved and a complete audit trail assured.

Latham stated: “We are proud to be able to show the CompacT SelecT in action for the first time at such a leading automation conference. It is an excellent example of a system that could be used for a variety of cell culture applications including assay development or reagent preparation and we are looking forward to welcoming visitors to TAP Stand 443 or to our tutorial to see how the new CompacT SelecT could contribute to improving their cell culture processes.”