Abstract
The ambr 15 has become the industry’s standard automated microbioreactor system for mammalian cell culture. It has applications throughout the industry, most commonly for cell line screening and media/feed development. On each ambr 15 workstation, conditions in up to 48 × 15 mL bioreactors can be individually controlled while a liquid handler enables automated addition and removal of liquids during the process. Integrated cell counting, metabolite analysis and pH offset correction are also possible thereby reducing the operator interactions that are required. Extensive user and software manuals are supplied by the manufacturer, but in this chapter we describe additional ways of working that we have implemented in routine cell line screening using the ambr 15.
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Warr, S.R.C. (2020). ambr® 15 Microbioreactors for CHO Cell Cultivation. In: Pörtner, R. (eds) Animal Cell Biotechnology. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2095. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-0191-4_4
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