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An incubator shaker (or thermal shaker) can be considered a mix of an incubator and a shaker. It has an ability to shake while maintaining optimal conditions for incubating microbes or DNA replications. This equipment is very useful since, in order for a cell to grow, it needs oxygen and nutrients that require shaking so that they can be distributed evenly around the culture.
Anyone employing an incubator shaker (thermal shaker) to grow yeast or bacteria in the laboratory needs to beware that under the usual conditions encountered in the lab, the rate at which oxygen diffuses from the gaseous phase into the shaken liquid phase is too slow to keep up with the rate at which the oxygen is consumed by, for example, E. coli dividing every half hour or Saccharomyces cerevisiae dividing every hour.
If the investigator measure the oxygen in the shake flask on the shaker — polarographically, for example — at mid-exponential phase of growth, the dissolved oxygen concentration will turn out to be zero.
A incubator shaker has a table board that oscillates horizontally. The liquids to be stirred are held in beakers, jars, or Erlenmeyer flasks that are placed over the table or, sometimes, in test tubes or vials that are nested into holes in the plate.[3] Platform shakers can also be combined with other systems like rotating mixers for small systems and have been designed to be manufactured in laboratories themselves with open source scientific equipment.
The Global Incubator Shaker Market accounted for $XX Billion in 2022 and is anticipated to reach $XX Billion by 2030, registering a CAGR of XX% from 2024 to 2030.
BIOCOMPARE Laboratory Incubator Shakers – In order to provide optimal conditions for cell growth, some type of agitation or shaking is necessary to incorporate oxygen and evenly distribute nutrients throughout the culture media.
That’s often done by placing a separate shaker inside an incubator, but incubator shakers combine those functions for a more convenient and efficient setup. The incubator shaker can be used for growth of just about any kind of cell including bacterial cultures, tissue cultures, and yeast.
Incubator Shaker set-ups range from compact, benchtop systems to large-capacity, floor-stackable units the size of a large freezer. Features to look for when purchasing include programmability, illuminated controls, adjustable speed (RPM), temperature uniformity and stainless steel interiors.
The Incubator Shaker provides researchers a benchtop shaking incubator allowing uniform heating, cooling, and mixing of precious life science samples. The compact footprint incorporates an intuitive control panel which allows the operator to easily program the device and view the live temperature, time, and mixing speed settings throughout the experiment.
