The Importance of Culturing Cells in Hypoxia
3 Jan 2018
In this video, Dr. Violane See, Co-Director of the Center for Cell Imaging, Liverpool, discusses her investigations into how cells adapt to their environment, especially the low oxygen environment known as hypoxia, and how they react to it. Dr. See also describes how the Whitley H35 Hypoxystation has helped facilitate her research over the past years.
About the company

Don Whitley Scientific
Don Whitley Scientific Limited is a leading international supplier of innovative equipment and services to the microbiology and tissue culture industries. We develop, manufacture, market and service instrumentation and associated products for the public and private sector - primarily for use in hospitals, public health laboratories, food testing organisations, pharmaceutical companies and research institutions. We also provide extensive contract research microbiology from our UK-based GLP-compliant laboratories.
Don Whitley Scientific Limited sells to both public and private sectors in a variety of scientific disciplines in organisations such as health protection agencies, pharmaceutical companies, food laboratories, contract microbiology organisations, hospitals, university research departments, water analysis companies and other research facilities. In the UK and Germany products are sold directly. In other parts of the world we supply and support our products via a carefully chosen distributor network.
Products sold include:
- Anaerobic workstations
- Variable atmosphere workstations
- Cell/tissue culture workstations
- Electrical microbiological detection systems
- Automated counting and zone measuring systems
- Image analysis systems
- Spiral platers
- Media preparators
- Gravimetric diluters
- Sample preparation equipment
- Autoclaves
And many other products for automating microbiology, pathology, virology and tissue culture laboratory tasks.
Brand names you may recognise include the Whitley Workstation range, Hypoxystation, WASP (Whitley Automated Spiral Plater) and RABIT (Rapid Automated Bacterial Impedance Technique). We also distribute products for Alliance Bio Expertise (ABE), Copan Italia SpA, Ebers Medical, Tuttnauer and Synoptics Ltd.



















