the Equipment available at the center
Equipment
Equipment
Equipment List
Testa Center has a variety of equipment for end-to-end bioprocessing. Please note, this list is a preview of the instruments available, and therefore may not include all the equipment Testa Center has access to. If there is an instrument you require but are unable to find here, or if you would like to bring your own equipment, please contact the staff for more information.
Upstream
| Function | Name | Description | # | Brand |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BIOREACTORS | ||||
| Microbial stainless steel bioreactors. | 15 L (Getinge); 200 L (Belach). Stirred tank. | 2 | Getinge; Belach | |
| Applikon Bio glass bioreactor with ez2 controller | 3.5 L parallel glass stirred tank bioreactor. | 6 | Applikon | |
| iCellis 500 bioreactor | 500 m² fixed-bed bioreactor. | 1 | Cytiva | |
| iCellis Nano bioreactor | 40 mL, 0.53 m² fixed-bed bioreactor. | 1 | Cytiva | |
| ReadyToProcess WAVE 25 bioreactor | System with tray 20 and 50 alternatives for a variety of reactor bag sizes; rocking motion bioreactor. | 5 | Cytiva | |
| Xcellerex Disposable Reactor | 50 L; 200 L; 500L | 4 | Cytiva | |
| MIXING SYSTEMS | ||||
| Xcellerex XDM Mixers | 50 L; 200 L; 500L mixing system for bags. | 3 | Cytiva | |
| Xcellerex XDUO | Mixing system for 100L, 200L or 500L bag | 4 | Cytiva | |
| LevMixer and Magnetic Mixer tank | 650 L mixer. | 2 | Cytiva | |
| INCUBATION | ||||
| Incubator shaker | Incubator shaker for microbial culture. | 2 | Infors HT | |
| Incubator shaker with CO2 control | With CO2 (Infors Minitron); one with CO2 and humidity (Kuhner); Incubator shaker for cell culture. | 5 | Infors Minitron; Kuhner | |
| Stationary CO2 Incubator | Incubator for cell culture. | 1 | Thermo Scientific | |
| PROCESS STATION | ||||
| ReadyKart mobile processing station | Tray for 50 L bags. "Bag holders are height adjustable to accommodate any size pillow bags up to 20 L, including non-Cytiva bags. Replaceable shelves, with cutouts, accept bins that hold 100 and 200 L 3-D bags." | 2 | Cytiva |
Downstream
| Function | Name | Description | # | Brand |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CHROMATOGRAPHY SYSTEMS | ||||
| ÄKTA Go | N/A | 1 | Cytiva | |
| ÄKTA Pilot 600 | N/A | 1 | Cytiva | |
| ÄKTA Pure | ÄKTA pure 25 (25ml/min); ÄKTA pure 150 (150ml/min) | 4 | Cytiva | |
| ÄKTA ready gradient | Single-use liquid chromatography system. | 1 | Cytiva | |
| ÄKTA start | N/A | 1 | Cytiva | |
| ÄKTA process | Polypropylene tubes, 6mm; 10 mm | 2 | Cytiva | |
| CHROMATOGRAPHY COLUMNS | ||||
| AxiChrom | 50 mm, 70mm, 100mm, and 140mm inner diameter columns available. | 5 | Cytiva | |
| BPG Columns | 100/500; 100/950; 140/500; 140/950; 200/500; 300/500 | 8 | Cytiva | |
| HiScale Columns | 16/20; 16/40; 26/20; 26/40; 50/20 | 8 | Cytiva | |
| Tricorn Columns | 5/50; 5/100; 10/100 | 9 | Cytiva | |
| FRACTION COLLECTION | ||||
| Fraction Collector F9-C | Fraction Collector for Äkta pure | 2 | Cytiva | |
| SAMPLE HANDLING | ||||
| Alias Bio Cool Autosampler | Autosampler | 1 | Cytiva |
| Function | Name | Description | # | Brand |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GEL ELECTROPHORESIS AND BLOTTING EQUIPMENT | ||||
| MiniPortean Tetra Cell | Vertical polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis system. | 1 | Bio-Rad | |
| Mini-Sub Cell GT | A horizontal electrophoresis system. | 1 | Bio-Rad | |
| XCell SureLock Mini-Cell & XCell II Blot Module set | Electrophoresis and blotting system for mini gels. | 1 | Fischer Scientific | |
| LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY | ||||
| 1260 Infinity II Bio-Inert LC system | HPLC system, UV-detector | 1 | Agilent TechNologies | |
| MOLECULAR INTERACTION ANALYZER | ||||
| Biacore 8K SPR system | Surface plasmon resonance (SPR) system. | 1 | Cytiva | |
| METABOLITE ANALYSIS | ||||
| Cedex Bio Analyzer | N/A | 1 | Roche Custom Biotech | |
| BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS | ||||
| ABL9 Blood gas analyzer | N/A | 2 | Triolab | |
| CELL COUNTERS | ||||
| NucleoCounter NC-202 | N/A | 1 | Chemometec | |
| Vi-Cell Blu | N/A | 1 | Vi-CELL | |
| Vi-Cell XR | N/A | 2 | Vi-CELL | |
| IMAGING | ||||
| Amerham Imager 680RGB | Blot and gel imager | 1 | Cytiva | |
| IMMUNOASSAY AUTOMATION | ||||
| Gyrolab xP workstation | Immunoassay automated analysis system | 1 | Gyrolab | |
| SPECTROPHOTOMETRY | ||||
| NanoDrop One | Microvolume spectrophotometer. | 1 | Thermo Fisher Scientific | |
| OPTIZEN NaNoQ | Microvolume spectrophotometer. | 1 | Optizen | |
| Spectrophotometer | UV/Vis for cuvettes. | 2 | Dynamica Scientific | |
| Microplate spectrophotometer | UV/Vis for microplates and cuvettes. | 1 | Thermo Fisher Scientific | |
| PLATE-BASED ANALYSIS | ||||
| Varioskan Lux | N/A | 1 | Thermo Fisher Scientific | |
| PCR ANALYSIS | ||||
| rtPCR | N/A | 1 | Thermo Fisher Scientific | |
| OSMOLALITY ANALYSIS | ||||
| OsmoPro Multisample Osmometer | N/A | 1 | MOLEK | |
| PARTICLE CHARACTERIZATION | ||||
| Zetasizer Pro Red | DLS/ELS particle analyzer. | 1 | Malvern | |
| TURBIDITY ANALYSIS | ||||
| Turbidity meter | TIR 200 | 1 | VWR | |
| MICROSCOPY | ||||
| Primostar microscope | Brightfield microscopy of stained samples. | 1 | Zeiss | |
| Primovert microscope | Inverted cell culture microscopes. | 2 | Zeiss |
Cell & Gene Therapy
| Function | Name | Description | # | Brand |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NANOPARTICLE FORMULATION SYSTEMS | ||||
| NanoAssemblr™ Spark | N/A | 1 | Cytiva | |
| NanoAssemblr™ Ignite | Clinical development of lipid nanoparticles (LNPs). | 1 | Cytiva | |
| NanoAssemblr™ commercial formulation system | Automated system for GMP- manufacturing of LNPs | 1 | Cytiva |
General
| Function | Name | Description | # | Brand |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SCALES | ||||
| Analytical scale | Up to 220 g | 2 | Mettler Toledo | |
| Bench top scale | Scales with capacities from 4 kg to 120 kg. | 15 | Mettler Toledo; Kern | |
| Floor scale | Up to 500 kg; 600 kg; up to 1500 kg. | 4 | Mettler Toledo | |
| STERILIZATION | ||||
| Autoclave | 55 L; 135 L | 5 | Ninolab | |
| Sterile Tube Fuser | Only for tube size 1/8 x 1/4 ". | 2 | Terumo | |
| Sterile Tube Fuser (Dry; Wet) | Can handle different tube sizes. | 3 | Cytiva | |
| Sterile tube sealer | N/A | 1 | Cytiva | |
| CONTAINMENT | ||||
| Biosafety Cabinet | Class 1, protecting personel and the environment. | 2 | Kojair | |
| Laminar Flow Cabinet | N/A | 5 | Lamsystems | |
| FREEZERS | ||||
| Freezer | -20°C; -40°C; -80°C | 9 | N/A | |
| Liquid nitrogen freezer | N/A | 2 | Linde | |
| Cold cabinet | N/A | 3 | NinoLux | |
| OVEN | ||||
| High temperature laboratory oven | N/A | 1 | Carbolite Gero | |
| TEMPERATURE CONTROL | ||||
| Incubator | Stationary | 1 | Termarks | |
| Thermostatic bath | N/A | 3 | LAUDA | |
| MIXING | ||||
| Hei-TORQUE Expert 100 | Overhead stirrer. | 1 | Heidolph Instruments | |
| IKA T-25 Digital Ultra-Turrax | Immersion blender. | 1 | Fischer Scientific | |
| LIQUID TRANSFER | ||||
| Peristaltic pump | 120U; 530S; 630S; 730SN/R | 9 | Watson Marlow | |
| LABORATORY TOOLS | ||||
| Micropipettes | Micropipettes with different sizes. | RAININ LTS | ||
| STORAGE | ||||
| ReadyToProcess storage bins | The bins accommodate either 100 L or 500 L storage bags. | 3 | Cytiva | |
| MONITORING | ||||
| SciPress Sensor Monitor (Pressure) | Portable pressure monitors. | 3 | Parker | |
| CENTRIFUGATION | ||||
| Sorval Legend Micro 17R | Microcentrifuge. 24 × 1.5/2.0 mL rotor. | 1 | Sorvall | |
| Sorvall Legend ST40R | Benchtop centrifuges. TX750 rotor. | 2 | Sorvall | |
| Sorvall BIOS 16 | Large capacity centrifuge. 6 × 2000 mL swinging-bucket rotor. | 1 | Sorvall | |
| Sorvall Lynx 4000 | Superspeed centrifugation. 6 × 500 mL and 8 × 50 mL fixed-angle rotors. | 1 | Sorvall | |
| CLEANING | ||||
| Ultrasonic cleaning bath | 18L | 1 | Fischer Scientific | |
| OTHER | ||||
| Label printers | N/A | 3 | N/A | |
| Conductivity and pH meter | N/A | 4 | Mettler Toledo |
