New 1536 Well Smooth Surface Microplates

Corning® 1536 well microplates are Corning’s highest density microplates available for high throughput screening. The microplates conform to standard microplate footprint and dimensions.

New from Corning Life Sciences:
1536 well black solid, white solid and black clear bottom microplates with a featureless (“smooth”) well array (top of the plate) that allows for improved precision with liquid handling and superior heat sealing with standard sealing tapes.

Surfaces available:
• Non-treated
• Tissue Culture treated
• Corning CellBIND Surface in some formats

Target customers:
• HTS
• Pharma
• Biotech
• Automation

With no skirt or wall around the well array to get in the way of the liquid handling tips and no printing on top (or skirt or wall) to interfere with heat sealed tape, the new microplates are ideal for use with lab automation instruments.

Quality and Compatibility, Only from Corning.

Corning Life Sciences maintains a comprehensive equipment compatibility program in which leading equipment manufacturers certify the compatibility of Corning’s products with their instruments. This information is continually updated with new products as well as new instruments. Corning microplates offer compatibility with a wide range of laboratory instrumentation, including microplate readers, microplate washers, liquid handling instruments, automation accessories, androbotic systems.

Corning offers a range of microplates in a variety of well designs and sizes, polymer materials and colors, and surface treatments:

• Black and white polystyrene microplates can be used for fluorescent and luminescent assays. Solid black polystyrene microplates are designed to reduce well-to-well crosstalk and background for fluorescent assays. Solid white polystyrene plates are designed to reduce well-to-well crosstalk, enhance luminescent signals and reduce background for luminescent assays. Both black and white microplates are available with clear bottoms for use in cell-based assays and microscopy applications, and allow top or bottom reading capabilities.

• Not treated (or medium binding) polystyrene surface is hydrophobic in nature and binds biomolecules through passive interactions. It is suitable primarily for the immobilization of large molecules, such as antibodies, that have large hydrophobic regions that can interact with the surface

• Tissue culture treated (TC-Treated) surface is used for the attachment and growth of anchorage-dependent cells.

• Nonbinding surface (NBS) is a Corning proprietary treatment technology used on polystyrene microplates to create a nonionic hydrophilic surface (polyethylene oxide-like) that minimizes molecular interactions. Ideal for reducing protein and nucleic acid binding at low concentrations, and increasing assay signal to noise.

• Corning® CellBIND® Surface is a Corning proprietary treatment which provides improved consistency and even cell attachment.