The Importance of Banking Cell Lines

• Repositories around the world store their cultures under optimal conditions, ensuring their survival and utility for the entire research community.
• They perform in-depth quality control to ensure that cells are suitable for use in research.
• Accession of cell lines from cell line repositories help reduce incidences of contamination of cultures with Mycoplasma and cross-contamination with other cell lines - an ongoing problem for the research community.

Why Deposit cell lines at CellBank Australia?

• Cultures in the CellBank Australia collection are assessed, preserved, and made available to scientists on request. 
• CellBank Australia welcomes deposits from any laboratory that has developed mammalian cell lines that are of interest to others.
• Depositors are able to access their own cells at any time at reduced rates, and use of their cells is restricted to research applications only.
• Under the terms of agreements made at the time of purchase, cells cannot be used in humans and may not be accessed for commercial purposes without the consent of the depositor.
• Australian depositors can ensure that STR profiles are generated from their cell lines to ensure that they are indeed unique and as a valuable reference in determining if future passages of that line become cross contaminated.
• Researchers can anticipate and increase in scientific citations through the use of their deposited cell lines.
• CellBank Australia can ensure global exposure and distribution of your deposited cell lines through the listing of CellBank Australia lines within the ECACC cell line catalogue.
• Researchers who deposit their cell lines can refer cell line requests from interested parties to CellBank Australia. This eliminates the need to culture, freeze and ship cell lines, saving on staff costs and workload.