Bioprocessing Industry

Cell Line Development

Enhancing cell line development workflows to enable successful IND submissions.

We accelerate cell line development workflows from initial discovery to scale-up and manufacturing of new biological therapies

From single-cell cloning and colony outgrowth to the establishment of a master cell bank, our cell line development technologies streamline the collection of evidence for credible IND submissions.

Streamlining Key Steps

When you’re bringing a biotherapeutic to market, finding the optimal cell line and ensuring clonality are critical for success, whether the cell line produces the biotherapeutic or is the biotherapeutic.

We’ve identified critical bottlenecks in the cell line development workflow and created unique instruments and reagents that save time and advance your program while efficiently collecting critical IND-enabling data.

Efficiently Ensuring Clonality

Move beyond limiting dilution methods to gentle, imaging-assured single cell seeding. Combining low-pressure single cell seeding with whole-well imaging, VIPS® PRO simplifies cell line development workflows while gathering credible data for IND submission at critical timepoints.

Move from testing to IND submission weeks faster. Capable of high-throughput clonal imaging, the Cell Metric® X is the gold standard for high quality, whole-well images. With artificial intelligence-based Automated Evidence of Clonality (AEC) you can automate detection, identification, while collecting image-based proof of monoclonality.

Accelerating Ranking and Selection of High Producing Clones

Make informed decisions faster and more securely.

ICON is a single, multifunctional instrument for determining productivity built specifically to support the cell line development workflow by identifying valuable high performing clones that may have been excluded through conventional methods.

STUDIUS is the data management and analysis platform that is integrated into the Solentim Ecosystem and brings together critical data from multiple devices to track clones, perform data analysis, and compile reports for regulatory packages.

Enhance Clonal Outgrowth

In the search for high-value cells, conditions can be optimized to support early and robust cell growth.

The Insti Reagents products are proprietary animal component-free cell culture supplements for CHO and HEK cells which confer major growth and survival advantages within cell line development.

Solentim MatriClone™ and Clinical Manufacturing Grade Laminin are matrices designed to support iPSC growth in single seeding workflows while maintaining pluripotency. MatriClone is optimized for ‘in-solution’ seeding and optically suited for automated imaging.

Improve Workflow Consistency and Reproducibility

Working with living specimens can present unique challenges due to the intrinsic variability of the starting materials. Producing lot-to-lot consistency throughout the process can be especially challenging when working with ultra-low liquid volumes.  

With our technology and services, you can take the liquid handling errors out of the equation! Liquid volume verification can help you ensure that the pipetted volumes are correct (even for volumes as low as 0.01µL) when you are prepping samples for your critical assays, such as qPCR, RT-PCR, NGS, ELISA, or HPLC.  

Popular Educational Resources

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Cell Line Development Case Study

Reducing the timeline by 30% to produce a monoclonal cell line expressing a clinical candidate bi-specific antibody

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Cell Line Development Case Study

Successfully filing an IND using Solentim’s VIPS™ single cell cloning system

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Cell Line Development Case Study

Doubling the Speed of Cell Line Development in a Large Pharmaceutical Company

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Cell Line Development App Note

Addressing Cell Line Development Bottlenecks Progressing from Conditioned Medium to InstiGRO Reagents

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Cell Line Development App Note

Automated Evidence of Clonality

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Cell Line Development App Note

VIPS® Updates: Product Improvements for an Increased Efficiency in Single-Cell Seeding Process

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Cell Line Development Webinar

Increased Efficiency of Clonal Selections & CLD Workflows with Solentim ICON

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Cell Line Development Webinar

Employing Tools of ICON to Advance Selection of the Highest Producing Clones

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Cell Line Development Webinar

Healthy Cells, Healthy Results: How to Improve Cell Line Development

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Cell Line Development Posters

Addressing CLD Pain Points, Creating Efficiencies and Accelerating Biotherapeutic Development with Advanced Instruments Ecosystem

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Cell Line Development Posters

Product In Action - OsmoTECH® HT Automated Micro-Osmometer

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Cell Line Development Posters

Solentim’s STUDIUS™ Powered Ecosystem - Clonality in Cell Line Development Workflows

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Cell Line Development Knowledge Center

Assurance of Clonality

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Cell Line Development Knowledge Center

Cell Line Development for Biotherapeutics

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Cell Line Development Knowledge Center

Data Integrity

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What our customers say

The Artel MVS simplifies fluid verification of all automated liquid handlers and multichannel pipettes. The system is fast, calculates all plate and well statistics (Relative Inaccuracy, Coefficient of Variation, Standard Deviation and Mean) and it is simple to set up and use. For all of its capabilities and low-cost point...the MVS is one of the best value purchases I have ever made for my lab.

Marc Orlowski

Pfizer

The [Insti-reagents] product worked as expected and was very useful in outgrowing clones from a single cell to shaking cultures. Highly recommend.

Nikita Gupta

Ginkgo Bioworks

The Artel MVS makes it so easy to do a monthly verification that the 96 channel CORE head on my Hamilton Vantage is dispensing the correct volumes. Doing the confirmation gravimetrically would be so time consuming, but using the Artel dyes and the MVS makes it something one person can do in a single morning. The software is easy to use, and the instrument has not had any maintenance issues.

Katherine Schneider

Pfizer

We use the PCS pipette calibration system. It has always been super reliable and accurate, and we have never had a single issue in the 8 years I have worked with it. The kits containing the solutions for the PCS are customizable, so you don't have to buy solutions you don't need. We do performance checks on our pipettes on a daily basis, so we could not live without it! It makes our jobs so much easier too!

Joan Kozlowski

Fresenius Kabi

The Artel PCS makes checking the pipetting proficiency of new hires quick and easy. It's also great for checking pipettes that may not be functioning properly.

Eric M

Sanofi

The Artel MVS has been a huge help for our lab in validating volumes on new automated liquid handlers. Always gives consistent results, easy to use, software is extremely straightforward, and any time we have an issue, it's super easy to get help from the Artel team. Thank you!

Leah Chong

Invitae

The MVS system is extremely useful for periodic performance QC testing of high-throughput liquid handlers, high-throughput liquid handler calibration, and various liquid handler/single channel pipette tip type/lot QC. The MVS system requires minimal maintenance and MVS manager software is intuitive to use and flexible to set up various plate layouts to meet user’s need. The customer service is very responsive and helpful. They provide a notification for calibrator plate re-certification annually ...

Hyun-Wu Lee

Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre

The [Artel MVS] product is accurate and reliable. With the addition of the pre-owned models of MVS readers, it also becomes affordable. The expansion of the dye solutions to include MasterMix and Serum along with their original aqueous offering makes Artel a definitive liquid class setup solution. The FSE performing setup and the account manager were on-time, responsive, and supportive during install and (most importantly) afterwards.

Kevin Kim

Avellino Labs

The Artel application scientist is easy to work with, knowledgeable about interpreting test data and giving advice, and flexible to help onsite if needed. I would recommend the Artel MVS because it saves time and material cost. Most important is having a standard method to calibrate different pipettes and optimize liquid class on automated liquid handlers while managing the sources of variability systematically.

Michelle Mak

10x Genomics

Equipment was easy to set up and easy to use. The [OsmoTECH HT] runs reliably and is great to have for running many samples.

Monica G

Biotech

The Artel PCS fulfills our requirements on ISO compliant pipette calibration and testing. Results are reproducible and variance is lower than in manual process. Personnel is easily trained on the device. Process is faster than manual process.

Andreas Heider

Axolabs GmbH

The MVS system is fairly intuitive to use. Not only can we use this for our internal automated liquid handler volume verification, tip test and calibration work, we have been using the system to offer external volume verification service to our collaborators. The system is very durable without significant issues and easy to maintain. MVS reagent orders are always processed and delivered in a timely manner. Our regional specialist periodically checks in to ask if the system is working as expected.

Hyun-Wu Lee

Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre

The [Artel MVS] is easy to use, gives accurate and reliable results. It's a great way to quickly determine the functioning of the automation systems that we install and maintain.

Thobias Haakman

Beckman Coulter

[With the VIPS PRO], we can trace back the data to the single cell, select from our top 48 cell lines, and report all the information – our proof of monoclonality is already in there, and that’s really nice.

Jolanda Gerritsen

Genmab

The Enhanced Clonality Reports easily generated by the VIPS/Cell Metric software allows us to track both cells and potential debris from first inception of the single cell in the well, to full-grown colonies enabling us to provide our customers with full traceability and audit trail of each cell line we produce for them with a single, well-crafted document.

Camile Evenou

Celonic AG

The VIPS™ is unique, being the only single cell cloning system on the market that tracks a single cell’s arrival in the actual well with high resolution (z-stack) imaging and to support the subsequent daily whole well imaging provided by the Cell Metric.

Camile Evenou

Celonic AG

The VIPS system allowed us to shave off a few months from our development timeline and select highly stable single clones for manufacturing purposes.

Andy Tsun

Discovery Biology, Biotheus Inc.

The VIPS™ system and software has helped our company to deliver a high-quality data-package that meets global regulatory standards...The ease of use and reliability of the VIPS freed up valuable time.

Andy Tsun

Discovery Biology, Biotheus Inc.

Once we brought [the Artel MVS] into the lab, we realized we could push to small volumes. We typically work beyond the liquid handler’s specifications, and we can do this because we have Artel to verify their performance.

Robert Grbac

SEKISUI XenoTech

The Artel MVS System has greatly improved our laboratory quality processes, not only streamlining instrument qualifications but accelerating verification and validations.

Chris Trefill

SummerBio

We rely on the MVS for verifications and liquid class development and optimization…

Thai Truong

Janssen R&D

The [Artel MVS] simplified and streamlined our QC process…

Natalie Grow

Bristol-Meyers Squibb

The MVS system has been vital to our lab operations.

Hyun-Wu Lee

Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre

Cell Metric X had the best whole-well imaging capabilities and clonality reports and, when we demoed the instrument, we were convinced by the robustness of the system and very high image quality.

Tom Kelly

Janssen

The Solentim ecosystem, [and Cell Metric X], allowed Wheeler to rapidly develop and launch a standardized cell line development service that is integrated with a scalable drug substance process.

Mike Brem

Wheeler Bio

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Marta Rucka Ph.D.

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Global Product Manager, Cell Metric & VIPS