The instruments have been routinely used to measure the viable biomass in bacterial fermentaions for determining:

• the various stages in growth in the culture
• the formation of protein inclusion bodies
• re-growth of products of cell lysis
• the optimum time to harvest vaccine fermentation’s when there is a peak of viable biomass

The new Biomass Monitor 220 combined with AberProbe (annular probe electrodes) is ideal for industrial scale bacterial fermentations.  See example below.