Automated cell culture

Cell culture is the foundation almost every drug discovery workflow is built on, whether you're running passaging cycles to keep a line alive or testing drug efficacy against a growing population, you need cells, and you need them maintained reliably. The core building blocks are largely the same across labs: bacterial and mammalian cells, core human cell types, and (increasingly) stem cell lines, whether grown adherent on a plate or suspended in liquid, each with its own media and handling requirements. Cell culture is a "hurry up and wait" process, where the real time spent isn't on a single pipetting step, but rather keeping a strict maintenance schedule over days or weeks. Manual processes can break down (for example, a missed feeding, a late media exchange, or an inconsistent hand-off between passages) and can threaten a culture. Cell culture automation matters more for reliability and walkaway time than raw throughput. That's the workflow Trilobio automates.