Discover the Latest 3D Cell Culture News and Methods

These new products and methods will improve your 3D cell culture

Discover the latest methods and technologies for 3D Cell Culture. Learn how you can automate your cell culture and find out about new technologies for imaging 3D cell cultures.

1. Application Note: Z-Stacking and Z-Projection using a Scaffold-based 3D Cell Culture Model

This application note demonstrates a technique using BioTek’s Gen5™ Image+ Data Analysis Software to perform z-stacking and z-projection of scaffold-based 3D cellular tumoroid structure images . Download application note

2. NEW Product: InSphero Launches Enhanced Ultra-low Attachment Spheroid Plate for Scaffold-free 3D Cell Culture

The new GravityTRAP™ ULA Plate design simplifies medium exchange and improves imaging during spheroid production and culture. The automation-compatible 96-well ULA format expands InSphero's portfolio of tissue culture platforms for scaffold-free 3D cell culture, offering a low-cost, enhanced ULA plate. More information

3. Application Note: Seeding, Culture and Cell-Based Assays of upcyte® and vericyte® Cells in the Mimetix® 3D Scaffold

This application note describes how to seed and culture cells, exemplified using Medicyte’s upcyte® Hepatocytes, as 3D cultures in the Mimetix® electrospun scaffold for subsequent endpoint measurements. This protocol can be adapted to all upcyte® and vericyte® cells. Download application note

4. Video: Easy Automation of Corning® 96- and 384-well Spheroid Microplates

Learn how Corning® 96- and 384-well Spheroid Microplates are designed to enable uniform, central, single spheroid formation across wells and allow culture and assay/imaging of spheroids on the same microplate. Watch the video

5. Application Note: 3D Cell Culture on Hamilton/GCS BioLevitator

This application note describes the general technology and a typical experiment with HEK293 cells cultured in the Hamilton BioLevitator™. This provides a more convenient cell culture process and delivers consistent results through continuous monitoring of cells on the Global Eukaryotic Microcarrier™ substrate. Download application note

6. NEW Product: FluoView FVMPE-RS Multiphoton System - Two New Microscopes for Live Cell and In-Vivo Imaging

With two new configurations of its FluoView FVMPE-RS multiphoton laser scanning microscope series, Olympus continues to expand the possibilities of multiphoton microscopy. The new Gantry microscope frame is designed to accommodate large samples and setups, and the inverted microscope frame is ideal for 3D cell culture. More information

7. NEW Webinar: Light Sheet Imaging for Fast 3D Live Cell and Tissue Imaging

Join Dr Planchon, Biophotonic Imaging Laboratory, Delaware State University and Dr Truong, Translational Imaging Centre, University of Southern California, in this fascinating discussion on light sheet microscopy. Case studies are presented in fast and dynamic 3D imaging. Watch the webinar on-demand

8. Application Note: Simplifying High Throughput 3D Spheroid Growth and Shrinkage Assays Using Live Content Imaging

This poster shows the assembly and validation of fully-kinetic, spheroid growth and shrinkage assays through the use of fluorescently labeled cells and Essen BioScience IncuCyte ZOOM™. IncuCyte ZOOM™ metrics and fluorescence intensity measurements are informative, and can be readily gathered to monitor spheroid growth and shrinkage over time. Download application note