Gibco — Cell Culture Media, Sera & Supplements
Gibco is Thermo Fisher’s cell culture portfolio for reliable growth, maintenance, and scale-up—from routine research to regulated manufacturing. The line centers on basal media, sera, supplements, buffers, and dissociation reagents designed to support reproducibility, documentation, and day-to-day practicality in academic labs, biopharma R&D, and QC.
Across common workflows you’ll see familiar Gibco staples: DMEM and RPMI basal media, Opti-MEM reduced-serum medium, FBS grades for different qualifications, GlutaMAX stabilized glutamine, TrypLE recombinant dissociation enzyme, B-27 neuronal supplement, and DPBS for routine washing and prep—each with clear specs and lot-level support.
Core Product Categories
These groups map to everyday culture tasks—expansion, manipulation, analysis, and scale-up. Use them to standardize methods across teams and align ordering with documentation needs, while maintaining consistency in formulations, packaging, and storage conditions across projects.
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Basal Media — DMEM, RPMI, MEM formulations for adherent and suspension lines; variants and pack sizes for lab or pilot use.
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Sera — Gibco FBS in qualified and premium grades, triple-filtered and lot-tested with accessible CoAs.
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Supplements — GlutaMAX (stabilized L-glutamine) and B-27 (neuronal culture) to maintain viability and performance.
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Reduced-Serum & Transfection Media — Opti-MEM for lipid-based transfection and serum-reduction protocols, with standard and no-phenol-red options.
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Detachment & Dissociation — TrypLE Express, an animal-origin-free recombinant alternative to trypsin for gentle, consistent cell release.
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Buffers & Salts — DPBS (with/without calcium, magnesium) for washing, transport, dilution, and reagent prep; available in bottles and bags.
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CTS (Cell Therapy Systems) — GMP-manufactured media and reagents with regulatory support to bridge discovery, clinical, and commercial manufacturing.
Also from Thermo Fisher: In addition to Gibco, Thermo Fisher’s classic brands include Invitrogen—molecular biology reagents such as Lipofectamine, SuperScript, TOPO, and Dynabeads—and Applied Biosystems—qPCR/CE systems like QuantStudio and TaqMan assays for quantitative genetic analysis.
