TAP Biosystems, a supplier of innovative cell culture systems and consumables for life science applications, has announced that its Fill-It automated benchtop vial filling system is being used routinely at an innovative cell therapy company developing cancer immunotherapies. This has improved processing speed and throughput of large batches of cells in cryovials for use as master cell banks or as cell-based immunotherapies.
Scientists at the company are using Fill-It to produce batches of around 1000 cryovials per run, containing 0.65 mL of up to 100 million cells/mL of an immunotherapy product candidate, consisting of two allogeneic cancer cell lines. Fill-It aseptically processes these temperature-sensitive cells at high throughput, enabling vials to be uncapped, filled and recapped at speed, so they can be put in the freezer quickly to maintain optimum cell quality.
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