Advances in cell biology and medical research are driving the growing need for technologies that enable the examination of dynamic molecular and physiological processes in individual living cells over extended periods of time.

Scientists today recognize that in order to advance the understanding of biological processes and to carry out tests on them, it is necessary to integrate separate functions into one complex modulus. The smallest living unit, the cell, plays a central role as a functional system model for such tests. Detailed quantitative understanding of single cell functions and integration of various aspects of cellular events become important tools for cell function analysis.

Cell Kinetics' CKChip system is a platform technology that enables fluorescence-based imaging of thousands of individual living cells, each held at a given position. The system allows monitoring, sequential manipulation and simple analysis of both adherent and non-adherent cells held on the Chip. The CKChip opens new opportunities in quantitative cell-based research, in particular for acquiring kinetic data from multiple individual cells.



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