CellEctor

The CellEctor gives you the ability to work in nanoliters of volume. The system gives you full control of how to pump in and out to acquire your sample of interest. 

The CellEctor can capture, dispense and do a rinse step well under a minute. However, it is best to note that the CellEctor is not a high-throughput system. Rather, it is a highly efficient and exact system to collect a rare cell sample gently in order to ensure its survival.

You can collect as many cells as you like (one by one). 

With CellEctor cell picker you have the ability to isolate adherent cells with the “Shake Mode”. This mode brings down the capillary and uses it to gently pull the adherent cell off the surface by use of circular motions.

After each aspiration, you can rinse the capillary in a solution of your choice. The CellEctor cell pciers liquid-handling workflow is flexible, allowing you to add rinsing steps whenever needed.

The capillaries used for the CellEctor cell picker come in a wide variety of sizes, ranging from 10 µm to 160 µm. 

The MMI CellEctor allows researchers to isolate and manipulate desired cells without the need for complex sorting techniques like Fluorescence-Activated Cell Sorting (FACS). While FACS is efficient for high-throughput sorting based on specific markers, it may not be suitable for certain applications where the target cells are rare or require more precise selection. In such cases, cell picking with the MMI CellEctor provides a viable alternative, enabling researchers to manually choose and collect individual cells of interest.

• Cell picking with the MMI CellEctor enables extremely gentle cell transfer for the highest cell integrity and outgrowth rates after cell transfer
   
• The cell picker is Ideal for isolation in cases of limited cell quantities  

A cell picker is an automated system used to select and isolate individual cells from a heterogeneous population. Cell picking is performed for various tasks such as cell sorting and single-cell analysis (e.g. single cell genomics to understand cellular heterogeneity and gene expression at the single cell level). The use of a cell picker has significantly advanced the field of cell biology and contributed to breakthroughs in various areas of research, such as cancer biology, stem cell research, and immunology, by enabling more precise and targeted analyses at the single cell level.

The MMI CellEctor cell picking system automates the cell pickup process using a microscope-based micro-capillary sorting system. The highly precise nanoliter pump enables single cell isolation even in nanoliter volumes. Since the system is fully motorised and computer-controlled, it offers complete control in manual and automated cell recognition, acquisition and deposition modes.