Madison, WI – Platypus Technologies announces the addition of the OrisTM Collagen I Cell Invasion Assay to its product line of cell-based assays. The new OrisTM Collagen I Cell Invasion Assay offers a versatile option for quantitating and imaging cell invasion through a 3-Dimensional Collagen I extracellular matrix. This new kit enables users to capture and quantify real-time cell invasion data using microplate readers, microscopes, and High Content Screening (HCS)/High Content Imaging (HCI) instruments.
Cell invasion is critical to a variety of in vivo processes, primarily tumor cell metastasis. The new OrisTM Collagen I Cell Invasion Assay complements the existing OrisTM BME Cell Invasion Assay, which utilizes a Basement Membrane Extract to create the 3-Dimensional extracellular matrix environment. To learn more, visit http://www.platypustech.com/discoverinvasion.html.
About Platypus Technologies, LLC:
Platypus Technologies, LLC develops innovative products for the analytical and life sciences that utilize recent advances in nanotechnology and materials science. Platypus Technologies has successfully launched several products in the OrisTM cell-based assay line that enable life science researchers to study cell motility; a key phenotype in a variety of in vivo processes. The Company is also developing a range of products, for diagnostic, environmental and laboratory applications, that derive from a proprietary platform technology utilizing liquid crystals for the rapid and low-cost detection of molecular interactions.
For more information: Ann Krohn, MS
Marketing Communications Manager
Ph: 608.237.1270
akrohn@platypustech.com
