With assistance of the Institute of Bioprocess Engineering at Erlangen university, the COSIR project is currently in progress. Results of the project are eagerly awaited in the field of cell biology. At the beginning of the project, the Memmert CO2 incubator, in which several different tests were performed for the study, was evaluated. The result showed that the active humidification system decreases evaporation inside the chamber considerably as compared with common incubators with passive humidification.
The COSIR project (combination of chemical-optical sensors and image recognition), which is backed by the Bavarian Research Foundation, is tackling an important challenge in the field of cell cultivation in the laboratory: the evaluation of cell growth without external intervention such as sampling.
