Hanks' Balanced Salt Solution (HBSS) is suitable for a variety of cell culture applications such as washing cells prior to dissociation, transporting cells, or Tissue samples, dilute cells for counting and prepare reagents. Preparations containing calcium and magnesium ions are often used as transport media or for reagent preparation. Gibco™ HBSS concentrate needs to be prepared by adding sodium bicarbonate, adjusting pH and filtering (see
protocol).
We offer a variety of
Gibco™ HBSS Formulation.
HBSS is improved as follows:
Includes | Does not contain |
•Calcium | •Phenol red |
•Magnesium ion | •Sodium bicarbonate |
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Formulation.
cGMP Manufacturing and Quality SystemsGibco™ HBSS is manufactured in a cGMP compliant facility in Grand Island, New York. The factory is an FDA-registered medical device manufacturer and is certified to the ISO 13485 standard. To ensure supply chain stability, we also offer the same Gibco™ HBSS product (14065-049) manufactured in our Scottish factory. The latter is also a medical device manufacturer registered with the FDA and complies with the ISO 13485 standard.
For Research Use or Further Manufacturing. Not for diagnostic use or direct administration into humans or animals.