Automated Cell Culture
August 28, 2018 | Terry Sharrer
With a relatively inexpensive set up, a bioengineer at Rice University built an automated cell culture prototype that controlled timing, temperature and inputs for 450 yeast growths over 500 hours. Sensors continuously monitored how each growth proceeded. The name for this system is “eVOLVER” and it “comprises three modules: a customizable “smart sleeve” housing and interface for each culture vessel, a fluidic module that controls movement of liquid in and out of each culture vessel, and a modular hardware infrastructure that simplifies high-volume bi-directional data flow by decoupling each parameter into individual microcontrollers.” Of course, a custom designed software program coordinates the process. MORE
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