Microcarriers for Cell Culture | Corning

Microcarriers: Ready to Use and Optimized for Cell Expansion

Corning Microcarriers are designed to simplify your scale-up processes. The microcarriers are sterile, ready-to-use, and available in closed systems packaging to be used directly with bioreactors. Additionally, the microcarriers are surface treated to enhance cell attachment, maximizing cell yield and viability. To get the most out of your production, try Corning Microcarriers.

Features
 

  • Consistency – USP Class VI polystyrene material provides a consistent platform
  • Performance – Corning Microcarriers are offered with a wide variety of surface treatments
  • Corning Synthemax® II coated substrate provides a synthetic surface on the microcarriers for stem cell expansion. 
  • Corning CellBIND® surface treatment enhances cell attachment for difficult-to-culture cells.
  • Collagen coating
  • Highest Sterility Assurance Level (SAL) of 10-6
  • Certified non-pyrogenic
  • Available with Aseptic Transfer Caps and as custom through Closed System Solutions
  • Compatible for use in Corning Disposable Spinner Flasks

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APPLICATIONS AND USE

Recent Publications

The Race to Billions: How Amplifying Adherent Cultures Can Get You There

Learn more about how adherent culture platforms can help you scale-up, while trimming time and costs with high-efficiency output.

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Efficient Expansion of Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells on Synthetic Microcarriers in Serum-free, Defined Medium Using Bead-to-Bead Transfer

Read how Corning microcarriers were used to expand bone marrow-derived hMSCs for multiple passages in animal component-free medium by bead-to-bead transfer without the need for enzymatic dissociation.

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Using the Corning HYPERStack® Cell Culture Vessel and Enhanced Attachment Microcarriers for Scale-up and Production in the Vaccine Industry

Enhance viral transduction efficiency by increasing surface area without expanding your spatial footprint using Corning HYPER technology and microcarrier beads.

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Dynamic Expansion of Vero and MRC-5 Cells Using Corning Microcarriers

The surface-area-to-volume ratio and scalability of Corning microcarriers make them an ideal choice for the expansion of Vero and MRC-5 cells. This study shows how these microcarriers enable improved optimization and culturing of adherent cells in dynamic cultures.

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Purchasing Options

Related Cell Culture Products

Spinner Flasks

Spinner Flasks

Spinner Flasks

Corning offers both reusable and disposable systems in a variety of sizes. Disposable systems come assembled and ready to use. Available with closed systems connections.

Corning offers both reusable and disposable systems in a variety of sizes. Disposable systems come assembled and ready to use. Available with closed systems connections.

Cell Strainers

Cell Strainers

Cell Strainers

An easy way to remove microcarrier beads from solution.

An easy way to remove microcarrier beads from solution.

Closed Systems

Closed Systems

Closed Systems

Choose from a variety of closed systems accessories that simplify liquid transfer.

Choose from a variety of closed systems accessories that simplify liquid transfer.