Stencell
The ready-to-use sticky foil with compartments that you can use for cellular confinement.
It is designed to standardize the experiments and to minimize the consumption of reagents.
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What is it for?
Use it notably for
wound-healing assay & immuno-cyto-chemistry experiments. It is very helpful when you are working with super expensive reagents or very rare cell lines, and when you want to test various experimental hypothesis
5 designs to choose from: Solo - Quartet - Nonet - Presto - Allegro.
Designed
by
Vincent Studer, Pierre-Olivier Strale
and Aurélien Pasturel
They were hosted by the Cell Organ-izers joint research laboratory (CNRS-Alvéole).
Powered by the Stencil technology published in
Advanced Healthcare Materials
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Features

Stencell saves samples and reagents
A few microliters only are required

It is compatible with imaging
Stencells are thin sheets of silicone, fully transparent, without autofluorescence. They stick to glass and to the most common plastics used in microscopy

Parallelized and standardized experiments
One multiwell Stencell can perform several experimental conditions

It is removable
It does not need glue, so it can be removed later on. It comes in handy for wound healing experiments

Pick it
or design it
Choose one of the 5 designs already available in the shop, or customize your own Stencell design. We produce it on-demand and ship it within a few days.
Gallery
Images shot with a 20X objective during 18 hours (1 image every 2 min) with an inverted microscope.
Image credit: © Pierre-Olivier Strale
Simplified protocol
Stencell and us
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"Sometimes research needs a high level of versatility. This is exactly what appealed me when I met Vincent, Pierre-Olivier and Aurelien. They were hosted by the Cell Organ-izers joint research laboratory, set up by CNRS and our sister company Alveole. So they naturally turned to us when they decided to look for a partner to release their stencils. We knew that Stencell would be so useful to a lot of researchers who could save reagents and cells while testing new ideas and experimental conditions on small volumes. So we said yes immediately. On top of that, the three of them have proven to be highly reactive and proactive, engaged and enthusiastic. They love as much as we do testing new ideas and suggest others. It was a great pleasure to go through our industrial process together!"
Contact us if you want to discuss your cellular confinement projects . Or just share insights on a research project.