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Smarter Bioprocessing Starts Here: Explore the Cytiva x Culture Global Collaboration

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Services

Process
characterization

Benefits

 
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Debottleneck cell culture process characterization

Leverage a high-throughput platform built for process characterization. Our large fleet of custom bioreactors and experienced team help you run extensive DoE studies to define Critical Process Parameters (CPPs) efficiently and cost-effectively.

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Transparent, real-time cell culture optimization data

Access real-time insights with our cloud-connected bioreactors. Live monitoring of your cell culture process characterization runs allows for faster iteration, better decision-making, and more confident downstream transfer. Gain full visibility into experimental performance at every stage.

 
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Avoid large, upfront CAPEX and FTE training

Outsource your process characterization development to Culture’s team instead of investing in lab build-outs, capital equipment, and staff training. Our infrastructure allows you to focus resources on decision-making, not setup.

Capabilities

 
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Run extensive DOEs

We support high-volume DoE execution for cell culture optimization and process characterization development, including multi-factor screening, interaction modeling, and late-stage refinement.

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Cloud-connected, real-time monitoring

Track every run in real time via our cloud-based platform. Monitor variables, trends, and performance metrics instantly during cell culture process characterization, gaining unparalleled control over your upstream experimentation.

 
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DOE design and data analysis support

Our data science team brings deep expertise in statistical modeling, power analysis, and outcome interpretation. Let us help design your process characterization studies and extract actionable insights.

Having access to Culture’s Cloud Lab has allowed us to pursue multiple projects simultaneously.

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Darcy Prather

Co-founder and President, Kalion

Our facility

Our laboratories based in San Francisco are equipped with segregated modality suites, state-of-the-art bioreactors and analytical instrumentation, all operated by an experienced bioprocess development team.

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350+

250mL and 5L bioreactors

20,000+

Bioreactor runs to date

70+

Customers have used Culture's services to date

High quality & safety standards

Analytical capabilities
  • Microbial bioprocess
    - Biomass quantification
    - Metabolite analysis
  • Mammalian bioprocess
    - Viability and cell counts
    - Metabolite analysis - Host cell protein
  • Protein
    - Titer quantification
    - Monomer/aggregation quantification
  • Viral vector
    - Capsid titer
    - Viral genome titer
    - Empty/full ratio
Segregated modality suites
  • Mammalian
    CHO and HEK
  • Viral vector (AAV)
    AAV generated by HEK transfection
  • Microbial
    Yeast, bacteria, and fungi
  • Media
    Media recipes to customer specifications
Rigorous standards
  • Quality management systems (QMS)
    Quality review of all runs and CAPA for major deviations
  • Safety & security
    BSL-2 and SOC2 compliant

Our bioreactors

At Culture, we custom-build our modular reactors with cloud-connected controllers, making bioprocess scale-out, design, monitoring, and analysis as easy as possible.
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250mL bench-scale single-use bioreactor

Benchtop bioreactor for process development

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5L single-use bioreactor

Our modular bioreactors are designed to be easily scaled up or down.

Explore our other service packages

Clone, strain & construct screening

Clone, strain & construct screening in our bioreactors

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Process development

Upstream process development and optimization

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Bioprocess modeling and simulation

Create bioprocess digital twins for scalable biomanufacturing in collaboration with our data science team

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Bioreactor scale-out

Leverage bioreactor capacity when you need it

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Optimize your bioprocess with Culture