Isolator

Cell isolation—also referred to as cell separation or cell sorting—is the process of isolating one cell population from other cells in a heterogeneous biological sample. Separating the targeted population from the rest of the sample minimizes interference and is key to identifying, studying, and analyzing specific cell populations. Cell isolation techniques allow scientists to perform a variety of applications, including capturing circulating tumor cells in blood, conducting molecular analysis of specific cell populations, isolating immune cells from peripheral blood, preparing a sample of blood separated from plasma, separating bacteria from food, studying the effects of drug candidates on cell types, isolating white blood cells from tissue, recovering mononucleated cells from blood.