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Toxicity Testing

The toxicity testing arena utilizes cell models to adequately provide a standard of testing for evaluation of drugs and cosmetics that minimizes costs and limits the use of animal studies. Inherent in the accuracy of these cell models is the ability of the cell model to maintain cell characterization and represent cellular responses indicative of consumer use.

Cell model systems utilized for testing are often cryopreserved to maintain a bank of cells for supply purposes. Preservation is a stress model that often results in loss of cell viability, as well as a lag in functional return by the cells that survive. Cryopreservation of cells in traditional media often yields a cell population model that may differ in multiple parameters from the characterized cell population prior to preservation.

Our products provide improved preservation outcomes including increased cell viability that, in turn, enables greater maintenance of an overall cell model population. Improved post-thaw yield and function of preserved cells models is of critical importance to drug and cosmetic testing companies that rely on toxicity testing to screen potential products.