Petaka® breakthrough Technology

There are many new cell culture technologies and instruments, being introduced global wide, which are bringing down barriers to improving cell biology research, but we, at Celartia, believe that none really strike at the very fundamental principles which are essential to cell and molecular biology, than the Petaka.

There are many sophisticated (and; with that we usually presume costly) instruments on the market, enabling researchers to achieve the essential physiological conditions necessary to truly study cell behavior in-vitro as in-vivo. But even these instruments are using outdated and coarse physiological conditions, replacing oxygen with nitrogen or helium in a wrong attempt to replicate the mammalian or human tissues. In Petaka, a simple, albeit innovative cell culture device, enables the cells themselves to auto-determine the levels of oxygen and CO2 in the media without using any external instrumentation or gas supply. Oxygen is being regulated, not replaced; by the cells own demands of the oxygen. This is achieved in normal atmospheric oxygen levels, a natural process that is crucial for stem cell growth and differentiation.

This truly unique privilege enables the cells, in mild hypothermia, to enter a transient dormant state (cell pausing) that offer the life science world the possibility to preserve cells at ambient room temperature levels for extended periods, between a few days to several weeks (depending on the cell type), avoiding the need of cryopreservation or cell encapsulation. This unprecedented innovation avoids cell stress of cryopreservation or encapsulation, both at the time of freezing and when thawing, and offers truly spectacular economies in shipping/logistical costs.
Moreover, this Physiological preservation is an essential feature for handling cell therapy cultures with its logistics. And experiments replicating in-vivo processes such as stem cell research for regenerative applications, anticancer drug development research and gene regulation pathways.

In addition, the Petaka allows researchers to conduct a series of applications and protocols on their cell cultures, without ever having to transfer the cells from the growing device to others. Growing, concentrating, washing, sorting, transfecting, supernatant/cell segregation, shipping, even deep freezing can all be performed within the same device. In conclusion, Celartia’s aim is to provide the researchers and health professionals the best, simpler, robust, safer and reliable high technology instruments, that facilitate the efficiency, reproducibly and quality of their work.