Cellomics
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Cellomics
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
Industry
Industry
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Biotechnology
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complete High-content screening platform
Revenue
Revenue
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Website
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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 neurite
Neurite
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.
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