Cell culture flask SFS

polycarbonatesingle-use

These single-use shake flasks made of polycarbonate have an oxygen and a pH sensor integrated at the bottom. The flasks are available in sizes from 125 mL to 5,000 mL volumes, with or without baffles. The sensors inside are irradiated and pre-calibrated, so the flasks are ready-to-use. The SFS can be read out with the SFR Shake Flask Reader or the SFR vario, for simultaneous online monitoring of oxygen, pH, OUR and (in case of the SFR vario) biomass. They are used with special clamps that align the integrated sensors with the reader optics. Online monitoring of O2 & pH Contactless measurement Ready-to-use Pre-calibrated sensor For microbes & cell culture APPLICATIONS Process Monitoring in Suspension-Adapted CHO Cell Cultures The online measurement of dissolved oxygen concentration and pH in shaken bioreactors paves the way for proper scale down activities from bench-top stirred-tanks to smaller scales. Adjustment of shaking speed as a function of pO2 is now possible avoiding possible oxygen limitations at high cell densities. Even a simple pH readjustment by tuning the pCO2 in the incubator is feasible to optimize the output from simple experiments with shaken bioreactors. Yeast & E. coli: Ensure Enough Oxygen Supply S. cerevisiae grows on different sugars as carbon source. While growth on glucose and fructose is mainly fermentative, growth on galactose is mainly respirative. This leads to low oxygen concentration in the shake flasks. The accurately measured oxygen indicates the need to increase rotation frequency to avoid oxygen limitation.