Cell Culture Surfaces
Surface Types
The Right Surface for Every Cell
BD Biosciences cultureware portfolio is comprised of four distinctive product brands, each defined by a a wide offering of cultureware and surfaces designed to facilitate, accelerate and enhance discovery. Choose from the list of brands below to learn more about each family of products.
BD Falcon (Tissue Culture-treated)
The BD Falcon™ brand is the leader in high-quality cultureware building on a heritage of proven reliability and consistency for confident cell culture conditions to assure dependable research outcomes. The BD Falcon Tissue Culture (TC) surface is a permanently hydrophilic surface which is produced via a unique vacuum-gas plasma process in a strictly controlled, closed environment, ensuring a highly consistent culture surface which is suitable for a broad range of cell types.
A non-treated surface is also available for suspension or non-adherent cell culture and may also be used to study cell-cell or cell-protein interactions in an in vitro system.
BD Primaria (Tissue Culture-treated)
BD Primaria™ supports neuronal cells, primary cells, endothelial, and tumor cells which may have difficulty attaching to or differentiate poorly on traditional TC surfaces. This surface features a unique mixture of negative, positive, and nitrogen containing functional groups on the polystyrene. The surface consistency of each lot is confirmed by electron spectroscopy chemical analysis (ESCA).
BD BioCoat (Biological ECM-coated)
BD BioCoat™ cultureware surfaces have been further enhanced (versus TC) with biological coatings of highly purified extracellular matrix (ECM) proteins for the cell culture of more complex cell models, to include transformed cell lines, transfectants of established cell lines, as well as primary and stem-derived cells. BD Biosciences manufactures a broad range of animal and human ECMs to support improved cell attachment, propagation, differentiation, and migration. In complex cell culture environments, BD BioCoat cultureware is the gold standard for dynamic biologic extracellular matrix surfaces designed to mimic in vivo environments and maximize cellular activity, delivering proven results and consistency in a broad range of research applications.
BD PureCoat (Defined Synthetic)
BD PureCoat™ cultureware has been pre-coated with chemically-defined (synthetic) attachment factors to provide an enhanced surface which is appropriate for a broad range of cell types (primary cells and transformed cell lines) and applications, but is ideal for applications requiring a more defined cell culture environment (serum-free or low serum-containing cultures). BD PureCoat cultureware is preferred in a range of research and screening applications because of its unique chemically-defined surface–a highly controlled environment for optimal cellular growth and more predictable, precise characterization.
Microporous Inserts
BD Biosciences offers a wide range of surfaces pore sizes and fluorescence blocking membranes which allow you to choose the system that fits your needs for cell-based diffusion and transport, cellular migration and cellular invasion assays. BD Biosciences cell culture insert systems are suitable for a variety of cell-based assays that require cells to have apical and basolateral access to media. Our cell culture inserts include both clear and fluorescence blocking membranes with tissue culture-treatment or with biological surface treatments.
For Research Use Only. Not for use in diagnostic or therapeutic procedures.
