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Colony Forming Assay is universally recognized as the gold
standard for
measuring the effects of radiation, chemotherapeutic drugs
and other agents
on cell viability. However, manually counting the resulting
cell colonies is a thankless and laborious task in which consistent
objectivity is difficult to achieve.
ColCount™
and GelCount™ are easy-to-use, intelligence-based imaging
systems for the automated detection, counting and analysis
of mammalian cell colonies. They provide an objective and
cost-effective alternative to the subjective and labour-intensive
task of manual colony counting in laboratory techniques such
as the Clonogenic Assay, Cell Survival Assay, Tumor Cloning
Cssay and Stem Cell Assay. These products thus have particular
application in Drug Discovery, Radiobiology, Toxicology and
Stem Cell Research.
ColCount™
was conceived specifically to rapidly detect and count stained,
adherent mammalian cell colonies in classic '2-D' clonogenic
assays. ColCount™ supports a variety of cultureware
including flasks, Petri dishes and 6-well plates.
GelCount™
is also suited to counting stained, adherent colonies but
is additionally capable of counting and analyzing NON-adherent
mammalian cell colonies in soft agar assays or other semi-solid
('3-D') media. GelCount™ is compatible with 6, 12, 24,
48 and 96-well plates as well as 35mm, 50mm and 100mm Petri
dishes.
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