CellShip: An Ambient Temperature Transport and Short-Term Storage Medium for Mammalian Cell Cultures

In this study, we describe a novel transportation medium for mammalian cells. Five commonly used cell lines, (HEK293, CHO, HepG2, K562, and Jurkat) were successfully shipped and stored for a minimum of 72 hours and up to 96 hours at ambient temperature, after which, cells were recovered into standard culture conditions. Viability (%) and cell numbers, were examined, before, following the transport/storage period and following the recovery period. In all experiments, cell numbers returned to pretransport/storage concentration within 24-48 hours recovery. Imaging data indicated that HepG2 cells were fully adherent and had established typical growth morphology following 48 hours recovery, which was not seen in cells recovered from cryopreservation. Following recovery, Jurkat cells that had been subjected to a 96 hours transport/storage period, demonstrated a 1.93-fold increase compared with the starting cell number with >95% cell viability. We conclude that CellShip® may represent a viable method for the transportation of mammalian cells for multiple downstream applications in the Life Sciences research sector.PMID:38150708 | DOI:10.1089/bio.2023.0100

Source: Biopreservation and Biobanking - December 27, 2023 Category: Biomedical Science Authors: Emma Buick Andrew Mead Abeer Alhubaysh Patricia Bou Assi Parijat Das James Dayus Mark Turner Lukasz Kowalski Jenny Murray Derek Renshaw Sebastien Farnaud Source Type: research