Cell Line Adaption Service
Full Service to Adapt Your Cells to Serum-Free Conditions
For decades, standard cell culture has been performed in the presence of fetal bovine serum (FBS), which contains growth factors required for cell growth. Basically, FBS is a by-product of cattle farming (meat industry) and its quality depends strongly on the health of the animals and their conditions during this process (general health, nutrition, stress, etc.). Apart from the ethical issues of avoiding the use of animals in science and industry, this fact massively increases the variability of cultures supplemented with FBS, presents a reproducibility problem and is one of the reasons for the reproducibility crisis in science.
Our cell culture experts offer a complete service to adapt your cells to serum-free conditions by our cell line adaptation service. Depending on your requirements, we can adapt your cells to xeno-free, chemically defined (CD) or animal derived component free (ADCF) media. We also offer adaptation as a GMP-compliant service (GMP Services) and provide you with a cell bank by our cell expansion service. In addition, these cells can be used directly in our cell-based assay service in which we use your adapted cells and perfom your assay in-house and the resulting data will be provided to you (cell-based assay service). You will receive full information on the supplements and their concentrations together with a comprehensive data sheet for your new cell line.