A CO₂ incubator plays an important role in maintaining a cell culture’s sterility, temperature, humidity, and pH—parameters that are to maintain the culture’s viability. CO₂ incubator is an essential requirement for growing mammalian cells in an artificial environment.

Cell culture is one of the major tools used in cellular and molecular biology, providing excellent model systems for studying the normal physiology and biochemistry of cells (e.g., metabolic studies, aging), the effects of drugs and toxic compounds on the cells and mutagenesis and carcinogenesis. It is also used in drug screening and development and large scale manufacturing of biological compounds (e.g., vaccines, therapeutic proteins).

Our cell culture laboratory facilitated by the Thermo Scientific™ Heracell™ VIOS 160i CO2 Incubator, which is designed to maintain a constant temperature and high humidity for the growth of tissue culture cells under a CO₂ atmosphere.

The conditions we generally maintained at this facility are 5% CO₂ , pH 7.4, 98.6°F (37°C) temperature, and > 90% relative humidity.