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SCI-tive – Quad

SCI-tive – Quad Build your Own Physiological Workstation

Baker Ruskinn’s SCI-tive range of advanced hypoxia workstations is perfectly suited for cell culture under physiological oxygen, helping to yield better stem cell lines by eliminating cellular stress linked to variations in temperature, pH and oxidation.

SCI-tive’s closed cell culture environment mimics in vivo conditions with precise, user-defined controls, allowing you study even the most complex cell interactions, under mimicked physiological oxygen conditions. Its spacious interior provides a continuous, controlled-oxygen environment, from seeding through expansion, assay and harvest, and easily accommodates a variety of analytical equipment such as cell imaging systems, inverted microscopes, plate readers, cell based assay platforms, bioenergetics instrumentation, centrifuges, bioprinters and so on. There is ample space on the work tray for cell manipulation and cell culture. All SCI-tive models have three internal power sockets and a universal multi-cable gland that can accept up to 6 different power cables through the side panel. No more working on an open bench.

Each of the four chambers easily accommodate a variety of analytical equipment – no more working on an open bench. The two center chambers are built to house even larger equipment, such as inverted and atomic force microscopes. SCI-tive Quad’s optional HEPA filtration system provides clean air within the work area to protect cultures from contaminants, and an upgraded enhanced containment package provides user protection.

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Features & Benefits

Convenient and Comfortable to Use

The SCI-tive Quad physiological oxygen workstation is specifically suited for cell and translational research work with complex incubations and manipulations being performed under the most ideal physiological and hypoxic conditions.

The SCI-tive Quad Features: Touchscreen Control Mimic Physiology:
  • O2 control – from 0.1% to 23.0% in 0.1% increments(can be 0.0% with anoxic accessory).
  • CO2 control – from 0.1% to 30.0% in 0.1% increments
  • Temperature control – from 7 °C above ambient to 45.0°C in 0.1° C increments
  • Ultrasonic Humidity control (from ambient to 85% RH)
  • Data log (one data set per minute, each set comprises: time, date, O2 (set/actual), CO2 (set/actual) humidity, temperature.
  • Alarm settings
 – Light control (on/off, dimming function)*
  • Quick and Easy Direct Hand Access with our new Ezeeyin Glove Ports offering a choice of entry methods to suit your experiments: from 5 seconds to 30 seconds.
  • Read plates easily without O2 exposure – energy- saving LED lighting for perfect illumination.
  • Automatic and easy-to-access controls.
  • Advanced integrated gas mixing system with touch screen simplifies calibration process, provides rapid equilibration, and facilitates the download of data.
  • Cycle programming allows a user-defined timed sequence of up to 4 different O2 and CO2 concentrations.
  • Removable front cover – allows easy access for cleaning or placing instrumentation into the unit.
  • Three electrical power sockets within the work area.
  • Optional HEPA filtration system providing a constant Class 4 HEPA filtered atmosphere within the work area to protect research from contaminants.
  • Optional enhanced containment package provides added protection for user.
  • Specially designed culture racks with light protective compartments as an option for individual T 75 or T 125 flasks.

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SCI-tive: Unleashing the Potential of Stem Cell Therapies and Drug Discovery

The SCI-tive workstation from Baker Ruskinn revolutionises cell therapy and drug discovery. By mimicking the body’s natural oxygen levels, it minimises cellular stress, leading to healthier stem cell lines. These superior cells hold immense potential for regenerative medicine and creating more effective medications. This technology empowers advancements in areas like treating damaged tissues and developing personalised therapies.

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Bugbox Ax Anaerobic

Baker’s anaerobic workstations are engineered specifically to help microbiologists cope with rising workloads and provide the best primary isolation rates. With quick and easy access via the Ezee Sleeve™ gloveless port system and energy-saving lighting that provides perfect illumination, with the new Bugbox Ax makes reading plates without exposing them to oxygen easy. Bugbox Ax can be used in even the smallest laboratory spaces. Its elegant design allows for 270 plate capacity (90mm plates) without taking up valuable bench space. Complementary features like the acrylic airtight chamber, palladium catalyst, and N2 purge in the interlock and the Ezee Sleeves™ all work to provide a strictly controlled, optimal anaerobic environment.

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Bugbox M

Bugbox M Microaerophilic Workstation. BugboxM Anaerobic & Microaerophilic Workstations are designed specifically to help microbiologists cope with rising workloads and provide the best primary isolation rates. Plates can be examined easily without exposing them to oxygen. The interlock system allows simple and fast transfer of 90mm plates into the anaerobic chamber.
By adding the ICONIC Gas Mixing System option, which provides accurate and stable control over O2 and CO2, you have the most convenient system for incubation of microaerophilic available.
The smallest Microaerophilic workstation packs all these innovative features into a compact bench print. Taking just 800 mm of bench space with a capacity to incubate up to 200 plates the Bugbox is the perfect way to improve isolation rates and is an easy to justify alternative to anaerobic jars. Bugbox is perfect as a ‘personal workstation’.

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Bugbox Mx Microaerophilic

Baker’s anaerobic workstations are engineered specifically to help microbiologists cope with rising workloads and provide the best primary isolation rates. With quick and easy access via the Ezee Sleeve™ gloveless port system and energy-saving lighting that provides perfect illumination, with the new Bugbox Ax makes reading plates without exposing them to oxygen easy. Bugbox Ax can be used in even the smallest laboratory spaces. Its elegant design allows for 270 plate capacity (90mm plates) without taking up valuable bench space. Complementary features like the acrylic airtight chamber, palladium catalyst, and N2 purge in the interlock and the Ezee Sleeves™ all work to provide a strictly controlled, optimal anaerobic environment.

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Concept 1000

The Concept 1000 is designed for large anaerobic workloads and larger batch sizes, or when two different atmospheres are needed. (Please ask about our dual chamber microaerophilic options) It comes with two independently controllable chambers, each 210.3L.

This range of workstations have been rigorously tested to maximise productivity of systemised anaerobic or microaerophilic incubation; bringing together a host of features that you can trust, bringing immediate benefits to your busy laboratory.

The optional removable pop-off front cover (Pop-Off™) makes set-up and cleaning so easy; the modular-design provides users with true flexibility to expand and upgrade workspaces. It is by getting the small things right that sets this range apart. We know just how crucial it is for your equipment to support your teams to deliver effectively and efficiently every day.

With quick and easy access via the Ezee Sleeve™ Glove port system and energy-saving lighting that provides perfect illumination.

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Concept 400

There are four models in the Concept range, each one carefully refined to suit your specific needs, with advanced ergonomic design providing excellent hand access and rapid plate loading. Ideal for varying capacity workloads and providing the best primary isolation rates for your anaerobic and microaerophilic cultures.
The Concept 400 is perfect for mid-range anaerobic workloads.
This range of workstations have been rigorously tested to maximise productivity of systemised anaerobic or microaerophilic incubation; bringing together a host of features that you can trust, bringing immediate benefits to your busy laboratory.
The optional removable pop-off front cover (Pop-Off™) makes set-up and cleaning so easy; the modular-design provides users with true flexibility to expand and upgrade workspaces. It is by getting the small things right that sets this range apart. We know just how crucial it is for your equipment to support your teams to deliver effectively and efficiently every day.
With quick and easy access via the Ezee Sleeve™ Glove port system and energy-saving lighting that provides perfect illumination.

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Concept 400 M

The Baker Ruskinn Concept 400M is a versatile workhorse for cultivating anaerobic and microaerophilic microbes. Part of a range with models for various capacities, the 400M boasts an ergonomic design for comfort and rapid sample handling. Precise control of oxygen (0.0-23.0%) and carbon dioxide (0.1-30.0%) in 0.1% increments creates the ideal environment for your cultures.

An intelligent interlock system maintains consistent conditions, while the Pop-Off™ cover and modular design ensure easy setup, cleaning, and future expansion. User-friendly features like Ezee Sleeve™ glove ports and energy-saving lighting round out this efficiency-focused workstation, empowering your lab team to deliver exceptional results. With quick and easy access via the Ezee Sleeve™ Glove port system and energy-saving lighting that provides perfect illumination.

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Concept 500

The Concept 500 is perfect for mid-range anaerobic workloads and comes with a larger interlock than the Concept 400.

This range of workstations have been rigorously tested to maximise productivity of systemised anaerobic or microaerophilic incubation; bringing together a host of features that you can trust, bringing immediate benefits to your busy laboratory.

The optional removable pop-off front cover (Pop-Off™) makes set-up and cleaning so easy; the modular-design provides users with true flexibility to expand and upgrade workspaces. It is by getting the small things right that sets this range apart. We know just how crucial it is for your equipment to support your teams to deliver effectively and efficiently every day.

With quick and easy access via the Ezee Sleeve™ Glove port system and energy-saving lighting that provides perfect illumination.

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CondoCell Workstation

Luxury Accommodation for cells!

When used in conjunction with a hypoxic incubator and/or a physiological cell culture workstation CondoCell can provide true, continuous physiological control over the entire cell culture system. CondoCell captures the environment of any incubator or workstation making continuous, uninterrupted culture accessible to all. When coupled with a workstation, CondoCell helps avoid any disruption in the delivery of temperature, humidity, and gas (CO2 and/or O2) to the culture environment.

Condocell provides continuous airborne particle monitoring, real-time data analysis, and contamination control, enabling industries to maintain high-quality standards and regulatory compliance in critical manufacturing processes. CondoCell may also be paired with any incubator (hypoxic or normoxic) to deliver stable, uninterrupted control of the intended growth environment AND reduce the likelihood for cross-contamination within the incubator. The Condocell Workstation is a cutting-edge cleanroom solution by LAF Technologies, integrating advanced Condocell technology for real-time airborne particle monitoring within the controlled environment.

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Invivo2 1000

The InvivO2 1000dual hypoxia workstation was designed and built to give you the reassurance of reliable, physiologically-relevant results under controlled conditions. It allows you to study the most complex of cell interactions under perfect hypoxic conditions, regulating and maintaining oxygen, carbon dioxide, temperature, and humidity Whether you’re hoping to replicate the environment of blood vessels or lung tissue, the InvivO2 is the best tool for the job. Baker Ruskinn’s InvivO2 1000 hypoxia chamber has two independently controlled chambers each with a 210.3L working volume, 800 x 96 well capacity and a 49L interlock capacity, allowing you to study even the most complex cell interactions under perfect physiological oxygen conditions.

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Invivo2 300

Our InvivO2 workstation is packed with new, innovative features that allow you to study even the most complex cell interactions under perfect physiological oxygen conditions. Whether you’re hoping to replicate the environment of blood vessels or lung tissue, the InvivO2 is the best tool for the job. Designed for strict hypoxic conditions Ezee Sleeve ports […]

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Invivo2 400

The InvivO2 400 hypoxia workstation was designed and built to give you the reassurance of reliable, physiologically-relevant results under controlled conditions. It allows you to study the most complex of cell interactions under perfect hypoxic conditions, regulating and maintaining oxygen, carbon dioxide, temperature, and humidity Whether you’re hoping to replicate the environment of blood vessels or lung tissue, the InvivO2 is the best tool for the job. It has a 26-litre interlock.

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Invivo2 500

The InvivO2 500 hypoxia workstation was designed and built to give you the reassurance of reliable, physiologically-relevant results under controlled conditions. It allows you to study the most complex of cell interactions under perfect hypoxic conditions, regulating and maintaining oxygen, carbon dioxide, temperature, and humidity Whether you’re hoping to replicate the environment of blood vessels or lung tissue, the InvivO2 is the best tool for the job. It has a 41-litre interlock.

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OxyGenie

OxyGenie – Mobile oxygen environment

OxyGenie is a low oxygen culture system for plant and cell biology. A miniaturised incubation platform, OxyGenie delivers researchers a small, portable, and continuous physoxic (hypoxic) environment for short term physiological oxygen and temperature studies. Ideal alternative to the InvivO2 workstation.

OxyGenie is ideal for conducting high resolution microscopy or irradiation under physiological oxygen conditions, further extending the time in which your cells can be exposed to in vivo like cell growth conditions. OxyGenie is a key tool for use in proof of concept or start-up validation for physiological cell culture within your lab, with minimal risk.

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PhO2x Box

The PHO2X BOX by Baker Ruskinn is a revolutionary gas control system designed for researchers on a budget. This affordable and innovative tool allows you to introduce the benefits of both physoxia (normal oxygen) and hypoxia (low oxygen) environments to your cell culture experiments.

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SCI-tive – Single

SCI-tive – Larger Physiological Cell Culture Workstations

Baker Ruskinn’s SCI-tive range of advanced hypoxia workstations is perfectly suited for cell culture under physiological oxygen, helping to yield better stem cell lines by eliminating cellular stress linked to variations in temperature, pH and oxidation.

SCI-tive’s closed cell culture environment mimics in vivo conditions with precise, user-defined controls, allowing you study even the most complex cell interactions, under mimicked physiological oxygen conditions. Its spacious interior provides a continuous, controlled-oxygen environment, from seeding through expansion, assay and harvest, and easily accommodates a variety of analytical equipment such as cell imaging systems, inverted microscopes, plate readers, cell based assay platforms, bioenergetics instrumentation, centrifuges, bioprinters and so on. There is ample space on the work tray for cell manipulation and cell culture. All SCI-tive models have three internal power sockets and a universal multi-cable gland that can accept up to 6 different power cables through the side panel. No more working on an open bench.

The optional HEPA filtration system provides clean air within the work area to protect cultures from contaminants, and an upgraded enhanced containment package provides user protection.

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SCI-tive Dual

SCI-tive – DUAL Physiological “Lab in a Box” Workstation – Symmetrical/Asymmetrical

Baker Ruskinn’s SCI-tive range of advanced hypoxia workstations is perfectly suited for cell culture under physiological oxygen, helping to yield better stem cell lines by eliminating cellular stress linked to variations in temperature, pH and oxidation.

SCI-tive’s closed cell culture environment mimics in vivo conditions with precise, user-defined controls, allowing you study even the most complex cell interactions, under mimicked physiological oxygen conditions. Its spacious interior provides a continuous, controlled-oxygen environment, from seeding through expansion, assay and harvest, and easily accommodates a variety of analytical equipment such as cell imaging systems, inverted microscopes, plate readers, cell based assay platforms, bioenergetics instrumentation, centrifuges, bioprinters and so on. There is ample space on the work tray for cell manipulation and cell culture. All SCI-tive models have three internal power sockets and a universal multi-cable gland that can accept up to 6 different power cables through the side panel. No more working on an open bench.

The SCI-tive Dual workstation provides the same innovative features and benefits as the SCI-tive, except there are two chambers with individually controlled atmospheres. The left-hand chamber is identical to the single SCI-tive chamber discussed on the previous pages, but the right-hand chamber varies depending on the specific model. Additionally the stand (and gas tight waste port) are standard on all of the SCI-tive Dual models. The right-hand chamber of the Asymmetrical Dual is built to accommodate larger inverted and atomic force microscopes.

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VelO2x

The VelO2x, Rapid Oxygen Control Chamber is ideal for fast O2 transition studies, such as Animal Research Models.

The VelO2x system is designed to provide controlled and isolated environments. By mimicking the conditions experienced within a diseased state, VelO2x allows the researcher to better understand the impact that O2 levels have in conditions such as sleep apnoea and cardiac arrest. VelO2x comprises an ICONIC Gas Mixer (offering pinpoint control of O2) connected to an isolated chamber (sufficient for certain animals).

Baker Ruskinn is a global leader and supplier of anaerobic and precision low oxygen culture systems for microbiology and tissue/cell culture applications. Its advanced line of anaerobic chambers, physiological cell culture workstations and media conditioning solutions enable superior research results by providing precisely controlled conditions for anoxic and low-oxygen studies.

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