Cellomics, Inc.

Intellicyt Corporation

Joseph M Zock

Keith Rao Heffley

Dirk John Vandenberg, Iii

Chandrasekaran Vasudevan

Megan Weiss

Brent A Samson

A slide holder assembly and method for use in high content screening of a comet assay. The slide holder assembly has an inside surface and is configured to receive a slide holding a plurality of biological cells on a top surface thereof. When the slide is secured within the slide holder assembly, the inside surface of the slide holder assembly and the top surface of the slide combine to form a cavity having an open top end. The cavity is watertight and configured to hold a liquid therein. A method of performing a comet assay using a slide disposed within a slide holder assembly. The method includes performing encapsulation, lysis, electrophoresis, staining, and imaging of cells on the slide while the slide remains secured within the slide holder assembly.

Slide holder assembly for comet assay

Particle analyzer

The present invention involves the pooling of multiple high content cell-based screening assays, and carrying out a primary screen in a one or more channels of a fluorescence detection device, which drastically increases the number of simultaneous high content cell-based screening events that can be carried out. Subsequent deconvolution of primary screen 'hits' (ie: those wells or locations on an array of locations in which the one or more test compounds caused a change in the fluorescence signal(s) from the fluorescent reporter molecules in the cells) enables much more rapid generation of high content cell screening data than was previously possible, and at significantly reduced costs.

Methods to increase the capacity of high content cell-based screening assays

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Rio Rancho, NM, United States of America

Joseph M Zock