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FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October
22, 2003
Guava
Technologies, Inc have released a technical paper detailing how
their ViaCount Flex assay reagent enables quick and reproducible
absolute cell count and viability assessments with insect and other
non-mammalian cells.
New
advance for Non-Mammalian Cell Counting & Viability Assessment
...
Guava
Technologies, Inc have released a technical paper detailing how
their ViaCount Flex assay reagent enables quick and reproducible
absolute cell count and viability assessments with insect and other
non-mammalian cells.
Guava
ViaCount Flex provides a measure of speed, ease of use and reliability
to cell counting that was not previously available to researchers
using non-mammalian cell lines. Developed to address the special
needs of researchers working with non-mammalian cell lines, in particular
insect cells, Guava ViaCount Flex can help accelerate work in vaccine
research and commercial vaccine production, as well as in studies
of insect pathology and disease states, all of which increasingly
rely on insect cell cultures.
Created
specifically for use with insect and non-mammalian cell cultures,
which often have biological characteristics that make them harder
to analyse, Guava ViaCount Flex produces assay results that are
highly reproducible, and there is significantly less operator-to-operator
variability in results compared to manual counting methods. Moreover,
the Guava ViaCount Flex assay is easy to perform, with rapid data
acquisition on the Guava PCA system, saving researchers significant
amounts of time. In addition to the speed and simplicity of Guava
ViaCount Flex, results from ViaCount Flex assays show good correspondence
and linear correlation to the current standard cell counting method,
trypan blue hemacytometer counting, over a broad range of cell densities
and culture conditions.
Copies
of the technical paper describing validation studies comparing Guava
ViaCount Flex assays of Sf9 insect cells with traditional counting
methods using trypan blue staining and a hemacytometer are downloadable
from the Guava Technologies online library, at the www.guavatechnologies.com
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