MDS Analytical: CellKey™ – High Throughput
Secondary Screening Instrument

Client

MDS Sciex

Product

CellKey™

Our Ingenuity

We provided the instrument development and transfer to manufacture for the world's first cellular dielectric spectrometer

Our role included:

• Concept generation
• Hardware development (analyser, fluidics, robotics, heating)
• Software for control and service
• Prototype build, test and qualification
• Design verification
• Transfer to manufacture

Challenges included:

• Fluid handling
• High performance impedance measurement
• Temperature control
• Cell plate handling
• Transfer to manufacture in Singapore

Your Advantage

The end result:

• Performs high sensitivity label-free measurements of real time cellular response to drug candidates
• Uses custom 96 well microplates with sensing elements in each well to directly measure cell impedance changes
• Interfaces to laboratory automation (microplates and disposables in pop-out draws)