Notes from the lab
Longer pieces on artificial cilia, physiological flow in cell culture and what we learn while building the MACplate with pilot labs — written by the people doing the work.
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The first pieces are being written alongside our pilot studies. Below are the topics in preparation — tell us which one you want first and we will send it to you when it goes live.
What we are writing
Three long-form pieces, each grounded in work we have actually done rather than general commentary.
- Cell models6 min
Why static culture is the hidden variable in your assay
Cells in the body rarely sit still. What disappears from a monolayer when shear stress is absent — barrier tightness, polarisation, phenotype drift — and why that shows up as variability between plates.
- Technology4 min
Artificial cilia, explained without the physics
In nature, hair-like cilia move fluid. Actuated by a magnetic field, our micro-actuators do the same inside a well. A plain-language walkthrough of how flow is generated without pumps or tubing.
- Pilots5 min
Notes from our first pilot runs
What pilot labs asked for first, what they did not care about, and the changes to the MACplate that came directly out of a week at the bench with them.
Want one of these when it goes live?
Email us the topic you care about and we will send the piece the day it publishes — no newsletter, no list.