Cellomics
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Cellomics | |
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Type | Private company |
Founded | 1996 |
Location | Pittsburgh, PA, USA Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Pittsburgh is the second-largest city in the US Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Allegheny County. Regionally, it anchors the largest urban area of Appalachia and the Ohio River Valley, and nationally, it is the 22nd-largest urban area in the United States... |
Key people | Dan Calvo President and CEO |
D. Lansing Taylor Founder |
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Industry Industry Industry refers to the production of an economic good or service within an economy.-Industrial sectors:There are four key industrial economic sectors: the primary sector, largely raw material extraction industries such as mining and farming; the secondary sector, involving refining, construction,... |
Biotechnology |
Products Product (business) In general, the product is defined as a "thing produced by labor or effort" or the "result of an act or a process", and stems from the verb produce, from the Latin prōdūce ' lead or bring forth'. Since 1575, the word "product" has referred to anything produced... |
complete High-content screening platform |
Revenue Revenue In business, revenue is income that a company receives from its normal business activities, usually from the sale of goods and services to customers. In many countries, such as the United Kingdom, revenue is referred to as turnover.... |
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http://www.cellomics.com/ |
Cellomics is a privately held company which is the self-described inventor of high-content screening (HCS). "Cellomics" is also a neologism, which the company coined to mean "the study of cells" or "the knowledge of cellular phenotype and function". Cellomics provides to customers analysis platforms designed to facilitate the study of cells in culture, particularly their responses to potentially therapeutic drug-like molecules.
Products
One type of product provided by Cellomics allows the monitoring of cell shape or the localization of intracellular labels in response to stimuli. Reported uses of this product type include assessment of neuriteNeurite
A neurite refers to any projection from the cell body of a neuron. This projection can be either an axon or a dendrite. The term is frequently used when speaking of immature or developing neurons, especially of cells in culture, because it can be difficult to tell axons from dendrites before...
outgrowth from neurons treated with drug compounds and assay for nuclear translocation of labeled proteins. Cellomics also provides data-mining software for extracting information from high-content screening data.