Thistle Scientific is pleased to announce a new partnership with Iprasense, further strengthening its role as a trusted partner to researchers advancing cell-based science across academia, biotechnology, and biopharmaceutical development.
This partnership strengthens Thistle Scientific’s commitment to providing researchers with the equipment and technologies needed to change the world for good.
Through this collaboration, Thistle Scientific expands its capabilities in cell culture monitoring by partnering with Iprasense, an organisation recognised for the quality and reliability of its live-cell imaging technologies, to bring CYTONOTE® systems to a wider research audience, enabling continuous, real-time insight into cell behaviour within everyday laboratory environments.
“We are pleased to partner with Iprasense as part of our ongoing commitment to providing scientists with equipment that is both high-performing and practical. Our role is to ensure researchers have access to solutions that integrate seamlessly into their workflows, reduce complexity, and deliver reliable results over time.”
– Richard Darby, Sales Director at Thistle Scientific
Strengthening How Researchers Work
As cell-based research becomes more complex, the ability to monitor experiments continuously without disrupting conditions has become increasingly important.
By bringing CYTONOTE® into its offering, Thistle Scientific enables researchers to observe living cells directly within the incubator environment, eliminating the need to interrupt experiments for analysis. Providing answers that reflect how research is actually conducted, not how it is ideally imagined.
Enabling Better Decisions Through Better Insight
Continuous, real-time monitoring allows researchers to capture dynamic cellular processes as they occur, rather than relying on isolated measurements.
With access to technologies like CYTONOTE®, Thistle Scientific supports scientists in generating more detailed growth data, clearer time-lapse insights, and a deeper understanding of cell behaviour across applications, including:
- Cell viability and proliferation studies
- Migration and response analysis
- Bioprocess monitoring and optimisation
These capabilities help reduce uncertainty and enable more informed decision-making throughout the research process.
Practical Innovation, Delivered with Support
A key focus for Thistle Scientific is ensuring that advanced technologies are not only powerful but usable and scalable in real-world settings.
CYTONOTE® combines imaging and analysis within a single, integrated platform, reducing the complexity typically associated with live-cell imaging while allowing multiple cultures to be monitored simultaneously.
Supported by Thistle Scientific’s technical expertise and commercial infrastructure, researchers benefit from both the technology itself and the guidance required to implement it effectively.
A Partnership Aligned with Purpose
By combining Thistle Scientific’s experience in product evaluation, application support, and global distribution with Iprasense’s specialised technology, the collaboration aims to deliver long-term value to the research community. Researchers will benefit from: Trusted access to validated technologies. Local technical and application support. Solutions designed for consistency and scalability. A partner focused on long-term research success
Looking Ahead
Thistle Scientific continues to strengthen its portfolio through manufacturing developments and partnerships that align with its core principles: reliability, practicality, and scientific integrity.
This collaboration with Iprasense represents another step forward as we put leading innovation in the hands of scientists, so they can chase answers, and turn learnings into legacy. One hypothesis at a time.