Buyer Guides
Short, practical procurement guides for selecting cell culture media, sera, and reagents. Written for R&D managers and procurement teams making sourcing decisions.
How to Choose DMEM for Your Cell Line
Procurement guide for DMEM variants — glucose level, phenol red, additives.
Read guide →Serum-Free vs Serum-Containing Cell Culture Media
When to choose each, and what 'animal-component-free' adds.
Read guide →CHO Cell Culture Media Selection Guide
Chemically defined options for transient, stable, and bioprocess CHO workflows.
Read guide →MSC Expansion Media — Xeno-Free Comparison
Comparing MSC media for academic, GMP-readiness, and clinical work.
Read guide →Cross-Reference Guide — Switching Cell Culture Media Suppliers
What to verify when changing supplier — equivalence, specs, performance.
Read guide →Cell Culture Media Quality Criteria
Standard quality parameters — pH, osmolality, endotoxin, sterility, mycoplasma.
Read guide →DPBS Powder: Reconstitution and Pack Size
Powder, 10x or ready bottle: cost per litre, calcium and magnesium, and a reconstitution checklist.
Read guide →Collagenase Type II: Powder or Ready Solution
100 mg powder vs 1 mg/mL ready solution: cost per mg, cold chain, and the activity units trap.
Read guide →MEM Amino Acid Solutions: 50X and 100X
Volume per litre, which media already contain NEAA, and what ships cold or frozen.
Read guide →DMEM Powder: Reconstitution and Pack Conversion
One 100 L pack vs 500 mL bottles: what the pack leaves out, what you add, and when powder pays.
Read guide →MSC Extracellular Vesicle Collection Media
Depleted serum or serum-free collection medium, three EV media side by side, and what to ask a supplier.
Read guide →Reference library
The guides tell you which product to choose. The cell culture reference library explains what each medium, buffer and reagent is and how it is used at the bench. Longer write-ups are collected under technical papers.
- Chemically Defined Medium
- RPMI 1640 Medium
- MEM Alpha (α-MEM) and Minimum Essential Medium
- DMEM (Dulbecco's Modified Eagle Medium)
- Cell Culture Contamination
- HEPES buffer in cell culture
- ACK Lysis Buffer: Recipe, Composition and RBC Lysis Protocol
- Essential vs Non-Essential Amino Acids in Cell Culture
- Antibiotics in Cell Culture: Working Concentrations and When Not to Use Them
- Recombinant Human Insulin in Cell Culture: Working Concentrations and ITS
- Poly-L-Lysine Coating Protocol for Cell Culture