CellCut

LOG · WHAT IT IS AND WHAT IT DOES

A scratch assay (also called a wound healing or cell migration assay) measures how quickly cells move to close a gap scratched into a layer of them. CellCut holds a row of pipette tips over a well plate to scratch every well the same way at once, as an alternative to culture inserts.

WHY

I was approached by a lab doing scratch assays, looking for a solution that would be better than inserts.

WHAT I WORKED ON

I did the full design and hardware; it was printed and sent for testing.

WHAT CAME OF IT

Tests were mixed. It was a good start, but it was shelved until another lab approached with a similar request. That's when it occurred to me that this could be a product for CLYTE, which led to CytCut.