Airlift Bioreactor Simplifies Cell Culture, Fermentation

Cellexus manufactures the CellMaker, an easy-to-use, single-use, disposable, airlift bioreactor system. The Cellexus technology applies an inexpensive state-of-the-art airlift methodology designed to simplify cell culture and fermentation in bioresearch, scale-up, production and manufacturing. The systems apply optimal aeration mixing and precise temperature control to accelerate and simplify bioprocesses with users of the system routinely reporting improved kLa values (oxygen transfer coefficient per unit volume) and higher OD levels than with batch fed bioreactors. The single-use, disposable, airlift element of the bioreactor is the CellexusBag which is a unique cell culture bioreactor bag designed for rapid set-up and optimization of cell culture and fermentation processes under clean, sterile conditions without cross-contamination. It comes with a sparge tube facility for efficient sample aeration and growth at high cell densities in E. coli, pichia and algae. The bags are made from a robust, co-extruded and multiple polymer material manufactured from pharmaceutical grade plastics welded using simple, strong manufacturing processes under class 10,000 clean room conditions and to the ISO standards required by the biopharmaceutical industry.

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