Corning® Elplasia® Plates
Elplasia Plates
Enable high density, scaffold-free, self-assembly spheroid formation, culture, and analysis in a standard plate footprint.
With the effectiveness of 3D spheroids in many areas of research including anti-cancer drug screening and in vitro tumor studies, the need for better methods to produce replicate spheroids of uniform size in mass quantities has emerged.
Corning Elplasia plates address this need by enabling researchers to generate a high density of spheroids in a scaffold-free model using microcavity technology. Use Corning Elplasia plates to generate, culture, and analyze hundreds to thousands of spheroids all in a standard plate footprint. Corning Elplasia plates are available in multiple formats, two well geometry types, and two surface coatings.
Elplasia plates are compatible with many cell types and may be used across many applications including; drug screening, including high throughput screening (HTS), cancer/tumor biology, stem cell biology, cell therapy research and 3D tissue engineering.
The only plates with a simple “plug and play” protocol for scaffold-free, self-assembly spheroid formation at large volumes.
Novel well geometry and surface coatings, including Corning Ultra Low Attachment (ULA) featured on the round bottom plates. Corning ULA surface is hydrophilic, biologically inert and non-degradable, which promotes highly reproducible spheroid formation and easy harvesting.
Corning Elplasia round bottom plates optimal for bulk spheroid formation, collection and expansion. Round bottom plates feature Corning Ultra-Low Attachment surface and are available in 6-, 24- and 96-well formats.
Key Features Of Elplasia Plates
- Two well geometry and surface coating options: round bottom type featuring ULA surface and square bottom type featuring a plasma-treated surface for self-coating
- Multiple format options: 6-, 24-, 96-, and 384-well
- Black opaque sidewalls that reduce well-to-well :cross-talk"
- Plates feature a surface with optical qualities suited for image analysis
- Gamma irradiated
- One-yead shelf life