Here is a photo sent by one of tebu-bio’s Travel Grants Winners in February!
She is just back from the 13th Cancer Immunotherapy Meeting in Mainz, Germany.
As scientists better understand the benefits of growing cells in three dimensions (3D) and routinely adopt 3D culture techniques, methods for visualising cells must also be adapted and optimised.
The most common and routinely used technique for tracking two dimensional (2D) cell cultures is light microscopy. Traditional 2D monolayer cultures are highly transparent and within a single optical plane. The minimal light diffraction and diffusion presented by the plastic surface allows the collection of focussed microscopic images. Cells cultured in genuine 3D environments, such as in Alvetex®Scaffold, present some of the same constraints as tissue samples or biopsies, in that simple, live observation of cultures via phase microscopy is not optimal.
There are however, other techniques that can be implemented which will allow the user to monitor culture progress easily and effectively in 3D.
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