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Technical articles • June 19, 2026
A practical buyer's guide to portable CO₂ incubators for cell and tissue culture — the five things that actually matter (temperature, CO₂ supply, runtime, contamination control, monitoring), how to match them to your workflow, and where a transport incubator fits next to a benchtop unit.
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Interactive tools • May 29, 2026
Enter working volume, flow rate, and viable cell density to get perfusion rate (VVD), dilution rate, residence time, cell-specific perfusion rate (CSPR), and media consumption — with a live stirred-tank visualization. A free, no-login continuous-culture calculator that runs in your browser.
Convert relative centrifugal force (RCF, × g) to and from RPM using your rotor's radius. Pick a rotor from the library or enter a custom radius, type RPM or RCF, and the other updates live — with a spinning-rotor visualization, tip speed, and angular velocity. Runs in your browser.
Calculate doubling time, specific growth rate, and number of doublings from two timepoints or a full time course — or project forward to predict cell counts and time-to-target. Works with cell counts, confluence %, or OD₆₀₀. Runs entirely in your browser, no login.
Enter NA, emission wavelength and immersion medium to get diffraction-limited lateral and axial resolution, plus the pixel size you need to sample it (Nyquist). Add your camera pixel and magnification to check whether you're under- or over-sampling — with a live Airy-disk + sampling-grid visualization. Runs in your browser.
Work out how much to weigh for a target molarity, do C1V1 = C2V2 dilutions, and lay out serial dilutions — pick what to solve for and everything updates live, with unit selectors and a beaker visualization. Runs in your browser.
Design 6–1536-well plate layouts, lay out dilution series, paste your results for a heatmap, and fit dose-response curves (EC₅₀/IC₅₀) — all in the browser. Export PNG, SVG, CSV, or JSON. No login.
Paste a protein sequence to get molecular weight, theoretical pI, molar extinction coefficient (280 nm), GRAVY hydropathy, aliphatic index, charge, and amino-acid composition — with a net-charge-vs-pH curve. A free, no-login ProtParam-style tool that runs in your browser.
Turn qPCR Ct values into relative expression with the Livak ΔΔCt method. Enter target and reference (housekeeping) Ct per sample, mark the calibrator, and get ΔCt, ΔΔCt and 2^−ΔΔCt fold change — with a fold-change bar chart. Replicate Cts are averaged. Runs in your browser.
Calculate a primer's melting temperature with the nearest-neighbor model (SantaLucia 1998, salt-corrected) and map restriction sites across the common cloning enzymes — both strands, linear or circular. Runs entirely in your browser, no login.
News • May 27, 2026
PhD-trained synthetic biologist and protein engineer — Harvard Medical School / Wyss Institute, Pearl Bio, Arizona State University, with a decade of work on engineered translation systems and genetic code expansion — joins 37degrees as the scientific point of contact for life-science research groups across the Boston / Cambridge ecosystem and the broader Northeast.
News • May 26, 2026
Immunologist and 20-year translational drug-discovery scientist — trained at UC Irvine, UCSF, and Stanford, with research leadership at Pfizer, TEVA, and 23andMe — joins 37degrees as the scientific point of contact for life-science research groups across Northern California and the Pacific Northwest.
Interactive tools • May 25, 2026
Paste a CDS or protein, pick a host organism + real constraints (avoid restriction sites, GC bounds, no homopolymers), and get an optimized DNA sequence ready for synthesis ordering. No login required.
Technical articles • May 25, 2026
The modern scientist's guide to the ELNs shaping wet-lab work in 2026 — Benchling, LabArchives, Labguru, eLabFTW, SciNote, RSpace, Colabra, and OMĒOS. The four jobs every ELN is doing, a competitive positioning chart, and a branded capability scorecard.
A free, embeddable 3D molecular structure viewer for any PDB entry or AlphaFold prediction — powered by Mol*, the same engine used by RCSB PDB, PDBe, and the AlphaFold Database.
Paste or upload a GenBank file, get a publication-quality plasmid map (linear or circular) you can download as SVG. Powered by the open-source DNA Features Viewer.
Technical articles • May 21, 2026
A pragmatic field map for AI agents in cell-biology labs — three jobs they already do well, two they still fumble, and the data architecture that separates a useful agent from a parlor trick.
A practical field map of the open-source tools shaping cellular image analysis in 2026 — CellProfiler, Fiji, ilastik, Cellpose, StarDist, Mesmer, Omnipose, Napari, and what foundation models are changing. With a quick-pick decision matrix.
Technical articles • May 20, 2026
Streaming culture telemetry replaces "did it crash overnight?" with a queryable record of every door event, CO₂ dip, and thermal excursion — captured at instrument resolution and ready to defend in review.
Every time a shared incubator door swings open, your cultures get a dose of broad-spectrum room light. The phototoxic byproducts that follow degrade media, stress cells, and quietly skew experimental results — and they're entirely avoidable with a personal, light-sealed incubator.
News • March 10, 2026
Selected by Amazon Web Services as a portfolio company — supporting the cloud infrastructure behind our connected-instrument and AI-driven platform.
Technical articles • January 7, 2026
The shared CO₂ incubator is arguably the most critical active variable in experimental design — and frequent door openings, cross-contamination, and unscheduled stress cycles silently degrade both your data and your budget.
Technical articles • December 13, 2025
Organ-on-a-chip and 3D organoid collaborations are limited by a critical, often-overlooked challenge — transporting living, functional systems between labs without losing viability. Here's the contamination minefield, the logistical nightmare, and what's coming next.
Interactive tools • November 30, 2025
An actively maintained, searchable database of open-source tools for biological cellular image and time-lapse analysis — ranked by GitHub stars, recent publications, and historical popularity.
Research publications • November 19, 2025
A poster on the FluidON system — a portable perfusion platform integrating incubation, microfluidic flow rates, and interchangeable bioreactors — presented at TERMIS 2025 in Detroit.
Research publications • November 11, 2025
A poster on the FluidON prototype — a portable, integrated perfusion system designed to maintain tissues under standard incubation conditions — presented at the Huggins Symposium 2025.
Technical articles • October 15, 2025
Portable incubators are transforming biology beyond the bench — but miniaturizing a CO₂ incubator into a power-efficient, contamination-resistant format introduces real technical and biological constraints. A look at the major obstacles and how they're being solved.
News • October 3, 2025
Accelerating GPU-enabled life-science research as a new NVIDIA Inception program member.
Research publications • May 22, 2025
Published in Bioengineering (MDPI), special issue "The New Frontiers of Artificial Organs Engineering" — a <10 lb portable perfusion + CO₂ incubation system maintains continuous flow under standard conditions, improving cell viability and tissue maturation.
News • October 1, 2024
SBIR Phase I grant to develop an affordable, cloud-connected cellular video microscopy platform.
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