Critical Considerations for CO2 Incubator Selection

The CO₂ incubator is one of the most widely used items of laboratory equipment in any typical cell culture laboratory. It is commonly used for the following applications: cell culturing, tissue engineering, neuroscience, cancer research, in-vitro fertilisation, embryonic stem cell research, stem cell research and other mammalian cell research and cultivation of mammalian cells.

The perfect in vivo environment (conditions required inside the CO₂ incubator inner chamber) that is most commonly used for cell research and cell cultivation is typically 37.0˚C, 5.0% CO2 and 88% RH (relative humidity). It is therefore very important to take time in deciding selection criteria before purchasing a CO₂ incubator and to consider some very important and critical factors such as uniformity and control and fastest CO₂, humidity and temperature recovery without overshoot.

Esco CelCulture CO₂ incubators combine direct heat technology with an air jacket and forced convection to reportedly achieve the most stabile, homogenous and accurate chamber conditions for cell cultivation.

VentiFlow forced convection offers reduced disturbance to cell culture. The blower automatically stops when the door is opened to minimise mixing of chamber and room air. As a result, recovery of the chamber air to ISO Class 5 cleanliness after the door closes is less than 13 minutes to prevent contamination. Filtered air circulates across the water pan to accelerate the humidifying process.

According to Esco, it has has undertaken a great deal of market research, analysed many competitors’ CO₂ incubators, listened to its customers and made every effort to produce the best quality CO₂ incubator range in today’s market.

Esco Gb Ltd, +44 1725 514 555, info@escogb.com, www.escogb.com.