The Nunc™ Edge plate has a design that minimises evaporation and the risks associated with the edge effect. When filled with sterile water or media, the surrounding moat acts as an evaporation buffer during extended incubation, yielding consistent, viable cells across the entire 96-well plate that in turn enhances productivity for cell-based assays. Enabling the use of all 96 wells allows researchers to plan experiments more efficiently, resulting in potentially less cost and related product waste.

• Reduce edge effect for full-plate results
• Yield viable cells with well-to-well consistency
• Increase productivity for cell-based assays

Using the Edge 2.0 plate in conjunction with the Thermo Scientific™ Varioskan™ LUX multimode microplate reader, the filled moat of the plate functions as passive humidity control. This allows for simultaneous incubation and signal detection during long-term applications with living cells inside the plate reader (with integrated gas module) without significant evaporation of the liquid in the sample wells.