MultiScreen^® Plates for Cell-Based Assays

The use of cell-based assays in life science and drug discovery research is important in the understanding of disease mechanisms. Cell-based assays play an important role in drug discovery secondary screening studies of promising drug compounds.

Millipore offers plate formats and membranes that allow a wide range of functional cell-based assay protocols to be performed.

Applications

• Cell viability and proliferation assays
  
• Migration assays
  
• Invasion assays
  
• Chemotaxis assays
  
• Whole cell incubation assays
  
• Whole organism assays
  
• Assays using conventional fluorescent or time-resolved fluorescent detection systems

MultiScreen Plates

• Incubate, filter, wash, and assay 96 samples simultaneously, saving time and money
  
• Range of membrane pore sizes and plate formats available for whole organism, invasion, migration, and chemotaxis assays
  
• Proven protocols available
  
• Compatible with automated liquid handling systems

Using filter plates for cell-based assays in life science and drug discovery research can decrease sample-to-sample variability, reduce background through more thorough washing, increase throughput and enable automation. MultiScreen^® filter plates and kits are available in a range of pore sizes to support assays with suspension and adherent cell lines and support cell growth for co-culture and transmigration assays. MultiScreen® -MIC filter plates are designed for broad assay compatibility and are available in three membrane pore sizes. The 96-well plates increase throughput 4x over 24-well systems, without sacrificing membrane surface area.