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Cell Culture

Built Around Your Cells

Media, reagents, and expertise tailored to your workflow, and not limited to a single supplier. Captivate Bio delivers flexible, high-performance cell culture solutions for academic, biotech, and clinical research teams, combining premium products, multiple trusted brands, and custom services to help you move faster with confidence.

Cell Culture Support without the Complexity

Cell culture is foundational but it’s also one of the biggest sources of variability, delays, and failed experiments. From inconsistent sera to contamination risks and supply chain gaps, small inputs create major downstream impacts. Captivate Bio doesn’t just supply products, we help you:

  • Procure serum or serum-free supplements like FBS, animal sera, or xeno-free human platelet lysate
  • Access hard-to-find reagents or custom formulations faster
  • Reduce variability with reliable products and services
  • Transition from RUO to GMP-grade with confidence

Grow and Maintain Cell Cultures with Confidence

Captivate Bio offers the most widely-used cell culture media, sera, and supplements designed to promote cell growth, proliferation, and maintenance of a variety of cell types. Products include animal sera and FBS, human platelet lysate, cytokines, small molecules, media supplements, classical media, salt solutions, cryopreservation media, cocktail kits and more!

Scale Your Cell Production with Captivate Bio

Captivate Bio offers an extensive selection of cell culture dishes, flasks, plates, tubes, pipets, and large-scale bioprocessing tools including the 5-layer, 10-layer, and 40-layer NEST BioFactory Culture System. All our NEST® cell culture plastics are available in various sizes, formats, and surface treatments that are manufactured under strict process controls and designed for your specific application.

For cell production applications, get all your scalable culture platforms and supporting reagents to keep your research moving forward from Captivate Bio.

Tackling Lab Contamination

Protect your cultures and your data.

Contamination is one of the most common—and most overlooked—risks in cell culture. From undetected mycoplasma to bacterial and fungal intrusion, even low-level contamination can compromise cell health, distort experimental results, and ultimately cost you valuable time and resources.

At Captivate Bio, we help you take control of contamination with detection and prevention solutions for your lab.

The Captivate Bio Advantage

Unlike other suppliers, Captivate Bio provides you access to multiple high-quality products and services, combined with deep expertise and customization.

Quality You Can Trust

Products manufactured to cGMP and ISO standards, supporting research through clinical translation.

Flexible Approach

Offering multiple brands, custom manufacturing, and products are available in various formats and packaging.

Custom Solutions

Driven to beat the competition by offering tailored media, reagents, and sourcing built around your cells and protocols.

Custom cell culture services start here.

Your protocol is unique—your media and reagents should be too. From defined media formulations to hard-to-source reagents, we deliver tailored solutions that accelerate stem cell expansion, differentiation, and translation. Captivate Bio offers:

Resources

Chemical grade terminology article by Captivate Bio
Articles

Common Grades of Reagents and Chemicals Explained

Selecting the correct reagent or chemical grade is critical for achieving reliable, reproducible and budget-friendly results. This guide explains some of these terms as used in cell culture and research.

Exosome-Depleted FBS from Captivate Bio
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Reducing Background Noise: The Role of Exosome-Depleted FBS in Cell Culture

What are exosomes and how do they impact cell cultures? This article discusses the basics of using exosome-depleted fetal bovine seurm.

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