Cell culture requires hours of time and constant attention to detail. It’s a labor-intensive requirement that places significant demands on scientists' time throughout the week, including weekends.
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Automation both relieves scientists of time-consuming, mundane activities and reduces human error and batch-to-batch inconsistencies associated with manual operations.
While automated liquid handling has already been achieved for complex processes using liquid handler devices, automating the complete process is far more difficult. Decisions based on cell density or growth rates are notoriously difficult to automate and ensure process quality.
Monitoring cell culture progress using imaging and image-based decision making offers a unique potential to fully automate the entire cell culture process. Automated decision-making enables not only media exchange and passaging but also cell culture control when scientists are not present in the lab.
This article demonstrates how to achieve reliable, consistent cell culture passaging and maintenance with minimal user involvement.
Acknowledgments
Produced from materials originally authored by Oksana Sirenko, Angelina Chopoff, Krishna Macha, Marco Lindner, and Felix Spira from Molecular Devices.
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