Sample preparation and cell culture

Cell culture use continues to increase beyond biological research with novel clinical applications in personalised medicine and cellular therapy. And with laboratories today processing a high volume of samples each week, there is pressure to do it right the first time, every time. Advance your sample preparation and cell culture with our comprehensive range of lab equipment, including CO2 incubators, biological safety cabinets, general purpose centrifuges, water purification systems and benchtop equipment. We offer a total solution – supporting you across every stage of your sample prep and cell culture workflow.

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Scientist working in front of biological safety cabinet

For more than five decades, we have been a pioneer and innovator in clean air technologies, enabling us to continually provide the best application-based solutions ideally suited for your working environment, especially when it comes to protecting your precious samples.


Biological safety cabinet

Our featured BSC, the Thermo Scientific Herasafe 2030i, innovates optimising essential environmental protection and contamination prevention, with enhanced user convenience, to deliver the most technologically advanced Class II cabinet. The 2030i provides unmatched performance accuracy to support demanding cell culture applications such as stem cells and primary cell culturing, and other challenging workflows requiring assured safety. It meets EN 12469 for a Class II biosafety cabinet.

Controlled-atmosphere glove box

Our comprehensive range of controlled-atmosphere glove boxes and chambers are designed to fit your laboratory needs. The Coy Lab range includes vinyl anaerobic chambers for microbiology/biochemistry studies, hypoxic chambers for cancer research, cell biology, and ischemia research, and basic glove boxes for general basic applications.

TopAir PCR cabinet

TopAir PCR-UV or PCR-UV + HEPA cabinets offer a quality filtering system which provides complete protection for your samples from contamination in genomics, proteomics, molecular biology, and forensic sciences applications. TopAir products can be customised to any size to suit your needs.

Barnstead Type 1 water purification system

Trust in Thermo Scientific Barnstead Type 1 water purification systems to consistently produce high-quality Type 1 ultrapure water in your laboratory – without the time-consuming hassles of frequent maintenance and service calls.

Autoclaves

Maintain lab safety and contamination control with our range of small and large autoclaves for cleaning and sterilisation purposes. Our range includes systems to suit a wide range of applications and throughput needs, from laboratory applications in research institutes and universities to the medical, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, food and chemical industries.

CO2 incubator with scientist

Cell culture contamination is a serious risk for research labs, process development labs and biomanufacturing. Contamination can compromise cell culture and experiment results, thus wasting valuable samples and conducting experiments that ultimately aren’t accurate. It is also of great concern to biomanufacturing as it is one of the leading causes of batch failure.

CO2 incubator with Cell Locker

Thermo Scientific Heracell VIOS 160i CO2 incubator with the innovative Cell Locker system combines our leading technology with an innovative, proprietary solution of removable, protected chambers designed for improved culturing efficiency and security for sensitive cultures.

Microbiological incubators

Successful incubation is an essential step in your everyday workflows. Thermo Scientific microbiological incubators are designed with your samples in mind to produce results you can count on. These incubators, also called "heat-only" or "standard" incubators have heating elements to provide incubation temperatures above ambient temperature only.

Aralab environmental chambers

The Aralab portfolio of high quality chambers and rooms are designed to provide control and flexibility to meet your evolving needs for research, development, and testing requirements. These chambers feature optimised technology for controlling temperature, humidity, lighting, airflow, and many other environmental conditions.

Benchtop centrifuge

Maintaining integrity is crucial when processing samples as they have significant monetary and reputational value for clinical and GMP labs and high research value for academia. With our extensive range of reliable and durable centrifuges, vacuum concentrators and freeze dryers, we ensure that there is no loss of samples in every step of your workflow.

General purpose centrifuge

Our centrifuge portfolio offers a wide range of choices for your application requirements, from cell culture, to clinical diagnostics, to genomics. Manufactured with quality materials for strength and durability, along with broad chemical resistance, for the uptime and consistent performance you expect from these workhorses of the lab, these centrifuges bring efficiency to the lab.

SpeedVac vacuum concentrator

Thermo Scientific Savant SpeedVac vacuum concentrators, refrigerated vapor traps and pumps use state-of-the-art centrifugation, vacuum and heat technologies for removing solvents and concentrating samples while maintaining sample integrity, thereby protecting your precious samples.

Labconco freeze dryer

Labconco freeze dryers are designed to handle the lyophilisation requirements of research and pilot plant labs. The tray dryers are the ideal drying accessory for freeze dryers, whether you are stoppering vials or have numerous samples batches.

Precellys homogeniser

The original tissue homogenizer from the Bertin Instruments Precellys range – the simple and efficient Precellys 24 is trusted by scientists all over the world for routine and research and development projects. With the capacity to process up to 24 tubes simultaneously and in 30 seconds, it possesses a unique automatic tube locking system, a real push-and-play system which makes it the easiest homogenizer to handle.

Save bench space in the lab

Like many labs around the world, you are often asked to do more with less. This can also mean working with less bench space. With a wide range of offerings, our benchtop equipment is designed to deliver outstanding performance, accuracy, and reproducible results for all your application needs.

Thermo Scientific orbital shaker

Providing reliable, simple, flexible shaking options for your applications at an affordable price, Thermo Scientific Solaris orbital shakers and accessories provide outstanding performance, accuracy, and reproducible results in the size and temperature parameters you need for your growing lab.

Thermo Scientific benchtop rotators, mixers, revolvers and rockers

We offer a range of benchtop rotators, mixers, revolvers and rockers that are robust enough for everyday use. With a broad-range of digital speed and time settings that allow you to set your parameters and move on to your next task, you can be confident about precise sample agitation for all your applications. 

Sartorius premium balance

Sartorius balances feature weighing, measurement, and automation technology for laboratory and industrial applications. These ultra-microbalances, microbalances, analytical balances, and precision balances excel in speed, accuracy, and quality, thereby reducing wastage of you precious samples.

Scientist working in front of biological safety cabinet

For more than five decades, we have been a pioneer and innovator in clean air technologies, enabling us to continually provide the best application-based solutions ideally suited for your working environment, especially when it comes to protecting your precious samples.


Biological safety cabinet

Our featured BSC, the Thermo Scientific Herasafe 2030i, innovates optimising essential environmental protection and contamination prevention, with enhanced user convenience, to deliver the most technologically advanced Class II cabinet. The 2030i provides unmatched performance accuracy to support demanding cell culture applications such as stem cells and primary cell culturing, and other challenging workflows requiring assured safety. It meets EN 12469 for a Class II biosafety cabinet.

Controlled-atmosphere glove box

Our comprehensive range of controlled-atmosphere glove boxes and chambers are designed to fit your laboratory needs. The Coy Lab range includes vinyl anaerobic chambers for microbiology/biochemistry studies, hypoxic chambers for cancer research, cell biology, and ischemia research, and basic glove boxes for general basic applications.

TopAir PCR cabinet

TopAir PCR-UV or PCR-UV + HEPA cabinets offer a quality filtering system which provides complete protection for your samples from contamination in genomics, proteomics, molecular biology, and forensic sciences applications. TopAir products can be customised to any size to suit your needs.

Barnstead Type 1 water purification system

Trust in Thermo Scientific Barnstead Type 1 water purification systems to consistently produce high-quality Type 1 ultrapure water in your laboratory – without the time-consuming hassles of frequent maintenance and service calls.

Autoclaves

Maintain lab safety and contamination control with our range of small and large autoclaves for cleaning and sterilisation purposes. Our range includes systems to suit a wide range of applications and throughput needs, from laboratory applications in research institutes and universities to the medical, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, food and chemical industries.

CO2 incubator with scientist

Cell culture contamination is a serious risk for research labs, process development labs and biomanufacturing. Contamination can compromise cell culture and experiment results, thus wasting valuable samples and conducting experiments that ultimately aren’t accurate. It is also of great concern to biomanufacturing as it is one of the leading causes of batch failure.

CO2 incubator with Cell Locker

Thermo Scientific Heracell VIOS 160i CO2 incubator with the innovative Cell Locker system combines our leading technology with an innovative, proprietary solution of removable, protected chambers designed for improved culturing efficiency and security for sensitive cultures.

Microbiological incubators

Successful incubation is an essential step in your everyday workflows. Thermo Scientific microbiological incubators are designed with your samples in mind to produce results you can count on. These incubators, also called "heat-only" or "standard" incubators have heating elements to provide incubation temperatures above ambient temperature only.

Aralab environmental chambers

The Aralab portfolio of high quality chambers and rooms are designed to provide control and flexibility to meet your evolving needs for research, development, and testing requirements. These chambers feature optimised technology for controlling temperature, humidity, lighting, airflow, and many other environmental conditions.

Benchtop centrifuge

Maintaining integrity is crucial when processing samples as they have significant monetary and reputational value for clinical and GMP labs and high research value for academia. With our extensive range of reliable and durable centrifuges, vacuum concentrators and freeze dryers, we ensure that there is no loss of samples in every step of your workflow.

General purpose centrifuge

Our centrifuge portfolio offers a wide range of choices for your application requirements, from cell culture, to clinical diagnostics, to genomics. Manufactured with quality materials for strength and durability, along with broad chemical resistance, for the uptime and consistent performance you expect from these workhorses of the lab, these centrifuges bring efficiency to the lab.

SpeedVac vacuum concentrator

Thermo Scientific Savant SpeedVac vacuum concentrators, refrigerated vapor traps and pumps use state-of-the-art centrifugation, vacuum and heat technologies for removing solvents and concentrating samples while maintaining sample integrity, thereby protecting your precious samples.

Labconco freeze dryer

Labconco freeze dryers are designed to handle the lyophilisation requirements of research and pilot plant labs. The tray dryers are the ideal drying accessory for freeze dryers, whether you are stoppering vials or have numerous samples batches.

Precellys homogeniser

The original tissue homogenizer from the Bertin Instruments Precellys range – the simple and efficient Precellys 24 is trusted by scientists all over the world for routine and research and development projects. With the capacity to process up to 24 tubes simultaneously and in 30 seconds, it possesses a unique automatic tube locking system, a real push-and-play system which makes it the easiest homogenizer to handle.

Save bench space in the lab

Like many labs around the world, you are often asked to do more with less. This can also mean working with less bench space. With a wide range of offerings, our benchtop equipment is designed to deliver outstanding performance, accuracy, and reproducible results for all your application needs.

Thermo Scientific orbital shaker

Providing reliable, simple, flexible shaking options for your applications at an affordable price, Thermo Scientific Solaris orbital shakers and accessories provide outstanding performance, accuracy, and reproducible results in the size and temperature parameters you need for your growing lab.

Thermo Scientific benchtop rotators, mixers, revolvers and rockers

We offer a range of benchtop rotators, mixers, revolvers and rockers that are robust enough for everyday use. With a broad-range of digital speed and time settings that allow you to set your parameters and move on to your next task, you can be confident about precise sample agitation for all your applications. 

Sartorius premium balance

Sartorius balances feature weighing, measurement, and automation technology for laboratory and industrial applications. These ultra-microbalances, microbalances, analytical balances, and precision balances excel in speed, accuracy, and quality, thereby reducing wastage of you precious samples.

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Webinars

Data integrity seminar
BSC and CO2 incubators seminar
Webinar: When Cell Growth is Critical
Webinar: Exploring and Preventing Culture Contamination
Webinar: Choosing the Right Water Purification System

Blogs and articles

Blog: Get smart about protection
Blog: Is your biosafety cabinet a weak link?
Blog: Put a new spin on an old favorite with general purpose pro series centrifuges

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Cell and tissue culture plastics

Cell and tissue culture plastics

Whether you are in need of TC treated plates for imaging, low attachment dishes for your 3D work, or Cryoware to store your precious samples, easily find your cell plastics by searching by surface, format, or other application needs.

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Kimble Wide Tip Opening Reusable Serological Pipettes

Kimble™ Wide Tip Opening Reusable Serological Pipettes

For use with viscous liquids, slurries and suspensions.

  • Colour-coded options: 5 mL (blue), 10 mL (orange), 25 mL (white)
  • Tip opening 3 mm
  • Graduation intervals 0.1 mL