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Picovitro has signed an agreement with Leica Microsystems for co-marketing and distribution of Picovitro Plates and Leica HCS A High Content Screening Automation. Together with Leica Microsystems we provide a joint concept for high content screening of single cell cultivation and in vitro imaging for medical and life science research applications.
A review by Wlodkovic and Cooper on: "Microfabricated analytical systems for integrated cancer cytomics" in the journal "Anal Bioanal Chem", 2010 Apr 25, describing Picovitro Plates among other methods suitable for cancer research.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20419489
A review on: "Miniaturization of biological assays - Overview on microwell devices for single-cell analyses" describes Picovitro Plates and other single-cell analysis platforms. Published in the journal "Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - General Subjects", May 2010.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bbagen.2010.04.009
A research paper entitled "Nanoporous Titania Coating of Microwell Chips for Stem Cell Culture and Analysis" was published in "the Journal of Biomechanical Science and Engineering (Special Issue on Micro and Nanobiotechnology for Cells)" Vol.5 No.3, May 2010. The paper describes an alternative coating procedure for culturing stem cells in the Picovitro Plates. http://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/browse/jbse/5/3/_contents
Visit Picovitro at CYTO2010 in Seattle, May 9-11. We will be presenting our products in booth 523. Welcome!
Sara Lindström of the R&D dept of Picovitro will defend her doctoral thesis "Microwell devices for single-cell analyses" on 11th of November at KTH.
Picovitro is on the front cover of Lab on a Chip, issue 24 2009.
The recent article demonstrating PCR amplification in the Picovitro Plates is highlighted in Highlights in Chemical Biology. http://www.rsc.org/Publishing/Journals/cb/Volume/2009/11/genes_from_clones.asp
Please come and take a look at the Picovitro Plates in booth 414 at the 49th American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) Annual Meeting in San Diego, December 5-9, 2009.
PCR amplification in the Picovitro Plate is demonstrated in an article published in Lab on a Chip. 01 October 2009: "Screening genes from clones -fast".http://www.rsc.org/publishing/journals/LC/article.asp?doi=B912596E%20
Picovitro Plates are well suited for culture and analysis of stem cells as demonstrated in an article published in the September issue of PLoS ONE 2009. http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0006997
A study using Picovitro plates for protein binding experiments has been published in Biotechnology & Applied Biochemistry, vol54, 2009. http://www.babonline.org/bab/054/bab0540121.htm
Meet representatives and discover products from Picovitro at our stand at Smi's 2nd annual conference Cell Based Assays,18th to 19th November 2009, Crowne Plaza Hotel - St James, London, United Kingdom
Picovitro was one of the participating companies at the Swedish American Life Science Summit 2009, August 19-21 in Stockholm
Check out our new animation of single cell and heterogeneity studies in the Picovitro plate Picovitro plate animation
We will present the poster "Engineering and characterization of HER2xEGFR-binding bispecific Affibody molecule using a low volume microwell chip" at the Lab-on-a-Chip European congress, the 19-20 of May in Stockholm International Fairs & Congress Center, Stockholm, Sweden.
Please visit us at booth 1869 at the100th Annual Meeting of American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) the 18-22 of April in Colorado Convention Center, Denver, CO, USA.
The Picovitro plate is mentioned in Biotech Sweden, No 3, March 2009.