As the holiday season creeps painfully slowly towards us it’s not only the lab staff who need a little TLC over the festive break. Cell...

Following on from our last blog we briefly describe insect cell culture media.  It used to be that all animal cell cultures depended on...

On a scale of complexity/difficulty, culturing insect cells falls somewhere between yeast and mammalian systems. They can be grown in...

We want to talk about how to grow cells over the holiday period spanning Christmas and New Year.  (OK, so we have covered this before but...

While OET Ltd has built its reputation on baculovirus-insect cell expression systems, we also undertake work that requires growing...

In our previous blog we talked about the early stages of growing insect cells when you might just have revived a frozen stock and set up...

With Autumn, or Fall as some of you may call it, upon us everyone seems to back in action in the lab again and hopefully growing insect...

Every so often we are asked if storing insect cells at -80°C is a viable option if you haven’t got access to liquid nitrogen cryogenic...

An important factor in baculovirus expression is assessing when to passage Sf9 cells, which are commonly used to make recombinant viruses...

The transition to suspension Sf9 cells from monolayer cultures is not difficult but does depend on harvesting the attached cells at the...

The process of reviving cells from liquid nitrogen, or indeed from transport on dry ice, can be a little difficult on occasion.  Two...

Have you ever had the experience of adapting insect cells to a new growth medium?  We recently had to do this for a client project...

Transferring Sf9 cells from monolayers to suspension cultures can sometimes be difficult.  These insect cells, commonly employed for...

For a follow up to our last blog we want to talk about maintaining healthy cells over the holiday period spanning Christmas and New Year....

Following on from our last blog on the revival of cells stored in liquid nitrogen, we now provide some tips on the continued healthy...

Hopefully after the seasonal break your insect cells are still in good health.  Recognizing healthy cells seems a no brainer, but if you...

So, you have had the Christmas Party and hopefully are looking forward to the holiday season.  Many labs shut down between Christmas and...

No, not how you feel when the cells don’t behave! This relates to keeping your cell cultures in a happy state. 1. Cell passage history...

Cell culture may be one of the most routine laboratory tasks, but many times it also proves to be extremely frustrating. Cells grown in...