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Bio-Rad Announces New TC10 Cell Counter that Counts Cells in 30 Seconds
25 Mar 2010Sarah Sarah
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Bio-Rad's TC10 automated cell counter counts mammalian cells in under 30 seconds. The counts are accurate and reproducible, eliminating the need for manual counting with a microscope and hemocytometer.
Cell biologists, molecular biologists, and biochemists count cells prior to cell culture or before starting other processes and analytical techniques such as transfection and real-time PCR, both of which require an accurate and consistent number of input cells. The hemocytometer is extremely labor intensive, tedious and vulnerable to subjective bias.
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