BioTek: Transfection Efficiency

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  BioTek President/CEO Briar Alpert Honored with UVM Achievement Award
  October 22, 2018 - BioTek is pleased to congratulate its President and CEO, Briar Alpert, for receiving the 2018 Alumni Achievement Award from the University of Vermont (UVM) Alumni Association. The award recognizes alumni demonstrating outstanding commitment to Vermont, the University, and the local community. Read more
  
  New Peltier Cooling Module Optimizes Conditions for Temperature Sensitive Assays
  October 16, 2018 - BioTek has released a Peltier Cooling Module for the Cytation™ Cell Imaging Multi-Mode Readers. The compact module keeps internal temperature rise to less than one degree over ambient, regardless of fluctuations from external and internal factors. The module helps maintain and optimize stability for more consistent data in assays run at ambient temperature. The module also quickly reduces internal temperature after incubated assays for efficient transitions between multiple applications with different temperature requirements. Read more
  
  New AutoScratch™ Wound Making Tool Enhances Reproducibility and Efficiency
  October 3, 2018 - BioTek introduces the new AutoScratch™ Wound Making Tool to facilitate two dimensional (2D) collective cell migration and invasion applications. With a simple pushbutton operation, the AutoScratch automatically creates consistent scratches of equivalent size and area in confluent cell monolayers grown in 24- or 96-well microplate format. This eliminates variability found in manual scratch methods and increases the reproducibility necessary to analyze and normalize results across subsequent assays. The compact system easily fits into laminar flow hoods, while an integrated, multi-reservoir cleaning trough and pre-programmed method offer hands-free cleaning and decontamination of the interchangeable pin heads before and after use. Read more
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Transfection Efficiency

Transfection of a cell population typically results in a varying number of cells expressing the desired gene(s) of interest; a common analysis requirement is determining the percentage of cells that are transfected compared to the entire population, often referred to as transfection efficiency. Cytation™ provides intuitive image analysis for automating the assessment of transfection efficiency.