Cell Culture Workflow Solutions

Cell culture is one of the foundational techniques for most life science labs. Understanding and effectively utilising the various cell lines, media and chemicals, incubators and biological safety cabinets, plastic and glassware, and storage techniques can mean the difference between success and failure.

What equipment is used in cell culture?

The specific requirements of a cell culture laboratory depend mainly on the type of research conducted. However, all cell culture laboratories have the standard requirement of being free from pathogenic microorganisms and share some of the same basic equipment essential for culturing cells.

The workflow and key equipment

Prepare and culture

Our biological safety cabinets and CO₂ incubators help you grow viable cell lines and prevent contamination, protect your samples as well as lab personnel.

Herasafe 2025 biological safety cabinet and Heracell VIOS CO2 incubator

Separate and harvest

With precise temperature control and accurate speeds, our centrifugation equipment is critical when you have to separate or concentrate cells or cell components.

Measure and analyse

Our plate readers measure a variety of signals, including fluorescence, absorbance, luminescence, and have a number of features to help you save time and maximise productivity.

Store and preserve

Innovations in our cold storage equipment incorporate advancements to provide energy efficiency, sustainability, storage space optimisation and ergonomics, and longer operational life.

Essential plasticware and pipettes, reagents and buffers

Plasticware and pipetting systems

Great results aren’t the only reason to use our popular cell culture plastics and pipettes.

Our plasticware can help significantly reduce your prep time, lab missteps, and the risk of contamination. Designed for very easy handling, they are validated with Gibco media.

Our pipetting systems incorporate years of experience and innovation to improve accuracy and precision for consistent, reproducible results.

Reagents and chemicals

Find the perfect reagents for your life science application from over 1,000 high-quality, high-purity reagents pre-qualified for a variety of applications. A variety of grades are available to support your specific application, providing end-to-end solutions for higher productivity in your routine life science research.

Growth: agar, carbohydrates, and antibiotics
Analysis: cell culture chemicals, biological stains, and apoptosis reagents
Processing: buffers, salts, and detergents

Cell culture workflow – Solutions from growth to storage

Download our cell culture poster with all essential workflow steps and products from Thermo Fisher Scientific to advance your research.

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Related instruments in a cell culture lab

Discover other lab equipment and consumables essential for your cell culture workflow

Automated
cell counters

Cell imaging
benchtop microscopes

Flow
cytometers

Autoclaves

PCR
cabinets

SMART Digest
kits

Gibco cell
culture media

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Services

Whether you require support on one instrument or a whole fleet,
we provide superior services and support that get you up and running faster.

Full-service support includes:

Instrument and equipment installation, repair, and technical support
Service plans with 50% faster response time and 30% less downtime**
Extended warranties
Preventive maintenance
Compliance and calibration services
Parts, consumables, software, and accessories
Asset and supply management

Service and maintenance plans

Compliance and calibration services

** Internal records suggest that proactive, annual preventive maintenance can reduce the number of instrument repairs by up to 50% and decrease instrument downtime by as much as 30% when compared to ad hoc time and materials repair visits.

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Lab design

Looking to invest in new equipment? Our virtual tool will help you visualise it within your existing laboratory footprint helping you make the most of your available space based on Thermo Scientific equipment specifications.

Workflow solutions

A virtual experience to highlight critical laboratory product solutions at each step of selected workflows, such as Cell Culture and Cell Therapy.

3D product tours

360-degree, spin, zoom, rotate, discover and interact with virtual laboratory equipment, including electronic pipettes, centrifuges, environmental chambers, and more.