Life Technologies Corporation

Richard Hassett

Peter Rezac

Richard M Fike

Neal Anderson

Karsten Nielsen

Mwita Phelps

Mary Reynolds

Paul Gulde

Rebecca Moore

Tom Donze

Andrew Campbell

Daniel Alessi

Shawn LaBarge

Elizabeth Clark

Barbara Dadey

Shawn Labarge

Robert Radominski

The present set of embodiments relate to a system, method, and apparatus for hydrating and mixing a liquid medium from a dry medium. Such systems, methods, and apparatuses can be used in the biotech industry because they can be used to provide prepackaged dry media in a format that can be quickly rehydrated free of issues with operator error found in more conventional media rehydration systems using mixing tanks and reactors.

Systems, methods, and apparatuses for media rehydration

The present invention is directed generally to dry cell culture media or feeds in pellet formats which can be reconstituted into liquid media for culturing cells in vitro. Each pellet composition may comprise the same or a different composition; for example, different vitamins, amino acids, buffers, trace salts, pH, iron chelators, etc. The invention also relates to methods of making dry cell culture media by altering ratios of different pellet compositions, or, methods of making modular dry cell culture media, or customizing media formulations for growing a cell type using pellets. According to the invention, media pellets may be easier to handle either before reconstitution, during shipping and handling; and/or during reconstitution. Media pellets may be used in any container like bags including sterile, single use bags for preparing media formulations. The invention also relates to kits and culture systems using media pellets.

Pellets used in cell culture and methods of making thereof

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Tonawanda, NY, United States of America

Richard Hassett