Nanopoint adds miniature microfluidics system to cellTRAY family

US nano-biotech company Nanopoint has launched two innovative cellTRAY products: the cellTRAY Fluidics System for multi-day live cell experimentation; and the cellTRAY Dish, an environmentally friendly Petri dish-type container.

The novel microfluidic system enables up to 10 parallel experiments over multiple days utilising a lab-on-a-chip type cellTRAY slide, a small fluidics controller and miniature incubator that fits on a microscope stage. The reusable cellTRAY Dish replaces Petri dishes for many slide-based experiments and significantly reduces laboratory bio-waste.

The cellTRAY Fluidics System Model CT-2000F creates new standards of precision and levels of efficiency for the study of small clusters of live cells, the company says, and creates new approaches for multiple cell analysis and simultaneous processing required by new drug discovery applications and primary cell research.

Nanopoint's award-winning cellTRAY provides a microarray of etched wells and includes fluidic channels necessary for delivery of drug compounds, nanoparticles and long-term life supporting fluidics. The new cellTRAY Dish was designed to contain the cellTRAY (or any standard microscope slide) during the cell loading, incubation, washing and staining stages of an experiment.

The autoclavable, reusable container is environmentally friendly and can easily replace single-use Petri dishes in many applications.