New Chemotaxis Slide

Ibidi, a supplier of solutions for bio-microscopy, has released a new chemotaxis slide for the optical analysis of slow migrating cells. This new slide allows the motion tracking of slow migrating cells like chemotactic active cancer cells in gradients. Up until now, comparable cell-based assays have only allowed the tracking of fast migrating cells as neutrophiles or dictiostelia. The new ibidi µ-Slide series allows the formation of long term stable gradients over a 48 hour period. This means that one can follow the motion of slow moving cells with a speed of roughly one cell length per hour. Assays generated in this way allow cell tests in small volumes since they require only 3 µl cell volume and a Chemokine amount of 18 µl. The slide comes together with a software plug-in for Image J, which can be downloaded for free from: www.ibidi.com.