Bio-Rad Adds Cuvette Option to Electroporation System

Bio-Rad Laboratories has launched the Gene Pulser MXcell ShockPod cuvette chamber for its electroporation system.

With the chamber, the MXcell system can electroporate as few as 100,000 cells in a 96-well plate or as many as 10 million cells in a 12-well plate or cuvette. Regardless of delivery format, it provides researchers with reliable data and reproducible results.

Critical to the success of any electroporation experiment is the ability to optimize experimental conditions. This leads to increased transfection efficiency while maintaining cell viability and the need for less sample such as primary cells. As with the plate formats, electroporation conditions using the chamber can be easily optimized.

Every critical parameter is programmable – from voltage to number of pulses – enabling researchers to find the ideal set of conditions for their specific cells. This permits the efficient delivery of molecules into mammalian cells, especially difficult-to-transfect cells such as primary and stem cells.