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High-performance x-ray inspection system that delivers improved product quality and increased product safety. The X12 system is the perfect solution for small-medium food and pharmaceutical products.
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WHITE PAPERS AND CASE STUDIES
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Case Study: Global OncologyScout's transportation, expense reimbursement, and time and wage loss compensation helped an oncology study recruit and retain hard-to-reach patients.
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Rohde & Schwarz Hosts RF Testing Innovations Forum 2025, Helping Design Engineers Elevate Their RF Expertise5/6/2025
Taking place over two days, Rohde & Schwarz and industry partners will be providing a virtual platform for RF design engineers to enhance their RF expertise and engage with industry leaders at the forefront of innovation.
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Nedap Supports HEMA With RFID Rollout4/15/2025
Nedap, the global leader in RFID solutions, will implement its iD Cloud RFID platform across more than 740 HEMA stores in the Netherlands, Belgium, and France.
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Xscape Photonics And Tower Semiconductor Unveil The Industry's First Optically Pumped On-Chip Multi-Wavelength Laser Platform For AI Datacenter Fabrics8/25/2025
Tower Semiconductor (NASDAQ/TASE: TSEM), a leading foundry of high-value analog semiconductor solutions, and Xscape Photonics, a U.S.-based innovator in advanced photonic interconnects funded by industry leaders such as NVIDIA and Cisco, today announced the successful prototyping and validation kit availability of the industry’s first on-chip, optically pumped, multi-wavelength laser source
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Almost 49M Tons Of Manure Pose Health Risk For Minnesota's Water5/15/2025
Huge amounts of manure from massive livestock facilities in Minnesota could pollute drinking and recreational water throughout the state, posing a significant health risk.
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Plastics Recycling With Enzymes Takes A Leap Forward6/30/2025
A successful collaboration involving a trio of research institutions has yielded a road map toward an economically viable process for using enzymes to recycle plastics.
ABOUT
Harvest and Collection
Harvest and collection is the process used to retrieve biological agents and vaccines present in cell cultures or to harvest and collect stem cells from blood or bone marrow. Many bioresearch companies have sophisticated systems for harvesting and collecting cells. These systems make counting cells easier and they also protect against contamination.
Cells are harvested once the cells reach a density level in the cell culture medium that precludes further growth. The best time to harvest cells is when they are in a confluent state (at least 50% of the culture dish is covered and before 100% of the dish is covered).
Cells can be harvested using on of three methods: Mechanical, using Proteolytic enzymes, or using EDTA. Mechanical harvesting uses a rubber spatula to remove the cells from the growth surface or culture. This method is quick but can cause many cells to die because it is highly disruptive. This method is favored when harvesting lots of different samples of cells to prepare extracts.
In this case, viability of the cells doesn’t matter. Three enzymes; Trypsin, Collagenase, and Pronase can be used in combination with EDTA. The combination of these enzymes with the EDTA makes cells detach from the growth medium.
This method is easy but also has a downside. It can damage the cell surface by eating up exposed cell surface proteins. EDTA can be used alone to detach cells from their medium and it is gentler than using trypsin.
Normally, collected cells are placed in a new suspension, or growth medium to continue growing new cultures. This is referred to as passaging or splitting the cells.