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. The posts below preview what is on the way.

• Cell models·Coming soon·6 min read

  Why static culture is the hidden variable in your assay

  Cells in the body rarely sit still. We look at what disappears from a monolayer when shear stress is absent — barrier tightness, polarisation, phenotype drift — and why that shows up as variability between plates.

• Technology·Coming soon·4 min read

  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, tubing or a new workflow.

• Pilots·Coming soon·5 min read

  Notes from our first pilot runs

  What pilot labs asked for first, what they did not care about, and the three changes to the MACplate that came directly out of a week at the bench with them.