MDI offers a very unique small scale filtration device to clarify cell harvest called “Harvester”. These are essentially Vaccuum Filtration devices with an integrated glass fiber prefilter which includes a coarse glass fiber layer and a micro glass fiber layer with a nominal pore size of around 0.7 um. This device can effectively eliminate the tedious task of cell harvest centrifugation and can rapidly speed up process flows such as clone screening for protein expression studies. MDI offers this technology in both 50 ml and 1000 ml format and this has been tested with high density CHO and HEK 293 cell lines. The product demonstrates MDI’s ability to engineer novel products for the biotech industry which meet a unique need for the lab. If you have a novel application or work in the lab and believe MDI may be able to assist with engineering a new solution please do not hesitate to contact the team at C Cubed Biotech - we enjoy developing novel solutions which solve unique probelms in the lab. The Harvester product is just one of many products developed from this approach to product development which is a the core competency of MDI.
A video below show the filtration product in action and the its efficacy with respect to cell clarfication directly from the bioreactor or shaker flask: