The Testa Center’s Instrument List
Instruments and equipment
Includes most instruments and equipment available to you in the Testa Center facility
General
| Name | Description | Category | # | Brand/Vendor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Analytical scale up to 220 g | General | 2 | Mettler Toledo | |
| Autoclave 135 L | 135 L chamber with rapid recooling, counter pressure and vacuum | General | 3 | Ninolab |
| Autoclave 55 L | 55 L chamber with rapid recooling, counter pressure and vacuum | General | 1 | Ninolab |
| Bench scale up to 120 kg | General | 3 | Mettler Toledo | |
| Bench scale up to 30 kg | General | 1 | Mettler Toledo | |
| Bench scale up to 60 kg | General | 4 | Mettler Toledo | |
| Bench top scale up to 20 kg | General | 2 | Kern | |
| Bench top scale up to 4.2 kg | General | 4 | Mettler Toledo | |
| Biosaftey cabinet - class I | General | 2 | MILMEDTEK | |
| Cold cabinet | General | 3 | ||
| Conductivity and pH meter | General | 4 | ||
| Floor scale up to 1500 kg | General | 1 | Mettler Toledo | |
| Floor scale up to 500 kg | General | 2 | Mettler Toledo | |
| Freezer, -20°C | General | 6 | ||
| Freezer, -40°C | General | 1 | ||
| Freezer, -80°C | General | 2 | ||
| High temperature laboratory oven | General | 1 | Carbolite Gero | |
| IKA T-25 Digital Ultra-Turrax | Immersion blender | General | 1 | Fischer Scientific |
| Label printer | General | 3 | ||
| Laminar flow cabinet | General | 5 | ||
| Liquid nitrogen freezer | General | 2 | Linde | |
| Micropipettes | General | RAININ LTS | ||
| Overhead stirrer | Hei-TORQUE Expert 100 | General | 1 | Heidolph Instruments |
| Peristaltic pump Watson Marlow 120U | General | 4 | Watson Marlow | |
| Peristaltic pump Watson Marlow 530S | General | 3 | Watson Marlow | |
| Peristaltic pump Watson Marlow 630S | General | 1 | Watson Marlow | |
| Peristaltic pump Watson Marlow 730SN/R | General | 1 | Watson Marlow | |
| ReadyToProcess storage bin, 100 L | 100 L storage bag bin | General | 2 | Cytiva |
| ReadyToProcess storage bin, 500 L | 500 L storage bag bin | General | 1 | Cytiva |
| SciPres Sensor Monitor - Pressure | Portable pressure monitor | General | 3 | Parker |
| Sorvall BIOS 16 centrifuge | Centrifuge with 6 x2000mL BIOS Swinging Bucket Rotor | General | 1 | Sorvall |
| Sorvall Legend Micro 17R centrifuge | Centrifuge with 24 x 1.5/2.0 ml rotor | General | 1 | Sorvall |
| Sorvall Legend ST40R centrifuge | Centrifuge with TX750 rotor | General | 2 | Sorvall |
| Sorvall LYNX 4000 Superspeed Centrifuge | Centrifuge with Fiberlite F12-6x500 and A27-8x50 fixed angle rotors | General | 1 | Sorvall |
| Stationary incubator | General | 1 | Termaks | |
| Sterile tube fuser | General | 2 | Terumo | |
| Sterile tube fuser (Dry) | General | 2 | Cytiva | |
| Sterile tube fuser (Wet) | General | 1 | Cytiva | |
| Sterile tube sealer | General | 1 | Cytiva | |
| Thermostatic bath | General | 3 | LAUDA | |
| Ultrasonic cleaning bath | Ultrasonic cleaning bath 18 L | General | 1 | Fischer Scientific |
Upstream
| Name | Description | Category | # | Brand/Vendor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 liter stainless steel (microbial) bioreactor | Stirred tank bioreactor | Upstream | 1 | Getinge |
| 200 liter stainless steel (microbial) bioreactor | Stirred tank bioreactor | Upstream | 1 | Belach |
| 3.5 L Applikon ez2-Control bioreactor | Parallell glass stirred tank bioreactor | Upstream | 6 | Applikon |
| 650 L mixer | LevMixer and Magnetic Mixer tank | Upstream | 2 | Cytiva |
| iCellis 500 bioreactor | Fixed-bed bioreactor, 500 m² | Upstream | 1 | Cytiva |
| iCellis Nano bioreactor | Fixed-bed bioreactor, 40mL, 0.53m² | Upstream | 1 | Cytiva |
| Incubator shaker | Incubator shaker for microbial culture | Upstream | 2 | Infors HT |
| Incubator shaker with CO2 | Incubator shaker for cell culture | Upstream | 2 | Infors Minitron |
| Incubator shaker with CO2 and humidity | Incubator shaker for cell culture | Upstream | 3 | Kuhner |
| ReadyKart mobile processing station | Tray for 50 L bags | Upstream | 2 | Cytiva |
| ReadyToProcess WAVE 25 bioreactor | Rocking motion bioreactor with 20 or 50 tray alternative | Upstream | 5 | Cytiva |
| Stationary CO2 Incubator | Incubator for cell culture | Upstream | 1 | Thermo Scientific |
| Xcellerex Disposable Reactor 200 | Upstream | 1 | Cytiva | |
| Xcellerex Disposable Reactor 50 | Upstream | 1 | Cytiva | |
| Xcellerex Disposable Reactor 500 | Upstream | 1 | Cytiva | |
| Xcellerex XDM 200 | XDM-200 Quad Jacketed Stainless Steel 200 L Mixing System for bags | Upstream | 1 | Cytiva |
| Xcellerex XDM 50 | XDM-50 Quad Propylene 50 L Mixing System for bags | Upstream | 1 | Cytiva |
| Xcellerex XDM 500 | XDM-500 Quad Propylene 500 L Mixing System for bags | Upstream | 1 | Cytiva |
| Xcellerex XDUO 100 | XDUO-100 Quad Jacketed Stainless Steel 100 L Mixing System for bags | Upstream | 2 | Cytiva |
| Xcellerex XDUO 200 | XDUO-200 Quad Jacketed Stainless Steel 200 L Mixing System for bags | Upstream | 1 | Cytiva |
| Xcellerex XDUO 500 | XDUO-500 Quad Jacketed Stainless Steel 500 L Mixing System for bags | Upstream | 1 | Cytiva |
Downstream
| Name | Description | Category | # | Brand/Vendor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ÄKTA Go | Chromatography system | Downstream | 1 | Cytiva |
| ÄKTA pilot 600 | Chromatography system | Downstream | 1 | Cytiva |
| ÄKTA pure 150 | Chromatography system | Downstream | 2 | Cytiva |
| ÄKTA pure 25 | Chromatography system | Downstream | 2 | Cytiva |
| ÄKTA ready gradient | Single-use liquid chromatography system | Downstream | 1 | Cytiva |
| ÄKTA start | Chromatograhpy system | Downstream | 1 | Cytiva |
| ÄKTAprocess 10mm PP | Chromatography system | Downstream | 1 | Cytiva |
| ÄKTAprocess 6mm PP | Chromatography system | Downstream | 1 | Cytiva |
| Alias BIO Cool Autosampler | Autosampler | Downstream | 1 | Cytiva |
| AxiChrom 100 column | Chromatography column | Downstream | 1 | Cytiva |
| AxiChrom 50 column | Chromatography column | Downstream | 1 | Cytiva |
| AxiChrom 70 column | Chromatography column | Downstream | 2 | Cytiva |
| BPG 100/500 column | Chromatography column | Downstream | 1 | Cytiva |
| BPG 100/950 column | Chromatography column | Downstream | 1 | Cytiva |
| BPG 140/500 column | Chromatography column | Downstream | 1 | Cytiva |
| BPG 140/950 column | Chromatography column | Downstream | 1 | Cytiva |
| BPG 200/500 column | Chromatography column | Downstream | 2 | Cytiva |
| BPG 300/500 column | Chromatography column | Downstream | 2 | Cytiva |
| Fraction Collector F9-C | Fraction collector for ÄKTA pure | Downstream | 2 | Cytiva |
| HiScale 16/20 column | Chromatography column | Downstream | 2 | Cytiva |
| HiScale 16/40 column | Chromatography column | Downstream | 1 | Cytiva |
| HiScale 26/20 column | Chromatography column | Downstream | 2 | Cytiva |
| HiScale 26/20 column | Chromatography column | Downstream | 2 | Cytiva |
| HiScale 26/40 column | Chromatography column | Downstream | 1 | Cytiva |
| HiScale 50/20 column | Chromatography column | Downstream | 2 | Cytiva |
| Tricorn 10/100 column | Chromatography column | Downstream | 3 | Cytiva |
| Tricorn 5/100 column | Chromatography column | Downstream | 5 | Cytiva |
| Tricorn 5/50 column | Chromatography column | Downstream | 1 | Cytiva |
Analytic
| Name | Description | Category | # | Brand/Vendor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1260 Infinity II Bio-Inert LC system | HPLC system, UV-dector | Analytic | 1 | Agilent TechNologies |
| ABL9 Blood gas analyzer | Analytic | 2 | Triolab | |
| Amersham Imager 680RGB | Blot and gel imager | Analytic | 1 | Cytiva |
| Biacore 8K SPR system | Surface plasmon resonance (SPR), interaction analysis system | Analytic | 1 | Cytiva |
| Cedex Bio Analyzer | Metabolite analyzer | Analytic | 1 | Roche Custom Biotech |
| Cell counter NucleoCounter NC-202 | Analytic | 1 | Chemometec | |
| Cell counter Vi-Cell Blu | Analytic | 1 | Vi-CELL | |
| Cell counter Vi-Cell XR | Analytic | 2 | Vi-CELL | |
| EPS 3501 XL power supply | Gel electrophoresis and blotting equipment | Analytics | 1 | Cytiva |
| Gyrolab xP workstation | Immunoassay automated analysis system | Analytics | 1 | Gyrolab |
| Microplate spectrophotometer | UV/Vis for microplates and cuvettes | Analytics | 1 | Thermo Fisher Scientific |
| Mini-Protean Tetra Cell | Gel electrophoresis and blotting equipment | Analytics | 1 | Bio-Rad |
| Mini-Sub Cell GT Horizontal Electrophoresis System | Gel electrophoresis and blotting equipment | Analytics | 1 | Bio-Rad |
| NanoDrop One | Microvolume spectrophotometer | Analytics | 1 | Thermo Fisher Scientific |
| OPTIZEN NaNoQ | Microvolume spectrophotometer | Analytics | 1 | Optizen |
| OsmoPro multisample osmometer | Osmometer | Analytics | 1 | MOLEK |
| Primostar microscope | Primovert microscope | 1 | Zeiss | |
| Primovert microscope | Inverted microscope with HDcam | Analytics | 2 | Zeiss |
| rtPCR | Analytics | 1 | Thermo Fisher Scientific | |
| Spectrophotometer | UV/Vis for cuvettes | Analytics | 2 | Dynamica Scientific |
| Turbidity meter | TIR 200 | Analytics | 1 | VWR |
| Varioscan LUX | Fluorescence Plate Reader | Analytics | 1 | Thermo Fisher Scientific |
| XCell SureLock Mini-Cell and XCell II Blot Module | Gel electrophoresis and blotting equipment | Analytics | 1 | Fischer Scientific |
| Zetasizer Pro Red | DLS/ELS particle analyser | Analytics | 1 | Malvern |
Cell & gene therapy
| Name | Description | Category | # | Brand/Vendor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cell Therapy Flex Factory | VIA Thaw, Sepax-C Pro, Xuri, Sefia S-2000, VIA Freeze, VIA Captule | Cell & gene therapy | 1 | Cytiva |
Software
| Name | Description | Category | # | Brand/Vendor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chronicle | GMP Manufacturing Automation Software | Software | >1 | Cytiva |
| Lucullus | Process Information Management System | Software | 1 | Securecell |
| SciAR Co-Pilot | Augmented reality protocol execution support | Software & Hardware | 1 | Sciar |
| UNICORN | Control system for the ÄKTA platform | Software | >1 | Cytiva |
| Wonderware | Control system for the XDR platform | Software | >1 | Cytiva |
