Cell Culture Media, Serum, and Supplements
Cell culture is a basic laboratory technique that allows the maintentance and growth of living cells outside of the animal or plant where they occur naturally. Successful cell culture provides cell population-optimized base media, supplements, and growth factors that mimic in vivo conditions.
Base Media and Supplements
Base Media and Supplements
We offer base media (e.g. DMEM, MEM, RPMI) in multiple formulations to give you choices in glucose, L-glutamine, HEPES, NEAA, nucleosides, phenol red, and sodium pyruvate content. We also develop and manufacture cryopreservation media and supplements for specialty cell culture.
Serum Products
Serum Products
We offer multiple grades of US origin FBS to support a variety of applications including embryonic stem cell and hybridoma culture. We also offer Tet tested, charcoal/dextran treated, and dialyzed grades with reduced levels of particular molecules. Our free sample and lot reservation programs help you identify and count on the best production lot for your experiments.
Basement Membrane Extracts and ECM
Basement Membrane Extracts and ECM
Promote robust cell growth, viability, and the development of 3D culture systems. We offer a variety of Cultrex™ membrane extracts, extracellular matrix products as well as purified ECM proteins and ECM pre-coated plates.
Recombinant Proteins, Cytokines, and Growth Factors
Recombinant Proteins, Cytokines, and Growth Factors
Our recombinant cytokines and growth factors set the industry standard based on their premium quality, high bioactivity, and lot-to-lot consistency. We also produce GMP proteins for ex vivo cell manufacturing and ProDots™ proteins that reduce aliquoting and media preparation time.
Custom Cell Culture Reagents
Custom Cell Culture Reagents
Leverage our expertise with recombinant proteins and small molecules and let us provide you with customized media developed to your specifications. Inquire about our media manufacturing, formulation, and optimization as well as specialty cell culture media testing.
Background Information
Cell culture requires understanding the nutrient and growth factor requirements of the cell population under study. This knowledge is valuable during the optimization of cell culture media, from base media formulation to supplements including growth factors, cytokines, hormones, small molecules, and amino acids. Serum, such as fetal bovine serum (FBS), can supply unidentified factors which may be required for cell growth. The use of chemically defined media minimizes exposure of cultured cells to unidentified factors. Certified xeno-free, animal-free, or GMP grades of cell culture media are important for applications such as cell and gene therapy which involve human patient treatment. Well optimized cell culture media maintain the desired cell phenotype, robust proliferation, and high viability.
Bio-Techne provides high quality cell culture reagents for research and cell manufacturing. We develop and manufacture cell culture and cryopreservation media, serum, defined media supplements, highly bioactive growth factors and small molecules, hydrogels, extracellular matrices, and basement membrane extracts for cell culture attachment.
Our Custom Cell Culture Media Manufacturing and Services will work with you to expedite and standardize media production, develop optimized media formulations, and perform specialty media testing. Our expertise includes media and supplement production, GMP media production, media formula optimization, custom labeling, and assays for testing media on stem cells, immune cells, and other cell lines.