Innovating Labware for Advanced Life

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High‑Performance Labware for Breakthrough Discovery

S‑BIO, a life‑science brand of Sumitomo Bakelite Co., Ltd., delivers premium labware and analytical solutions designed to accelerate innovation in drug discovery, cancer research, regenerative medicine, and glycomics. Our products empower scientists with reliable performance, reproducibility, and unmatched quality—every step of the way.

3D Cell Culture Reliability

Engineered for Consistent, Reproducible Spheroid Formation

S‑BIO’s advanced lineup of 3D cell culture plates provides researchers with the precision and consistency required to cultivate physiologically relevant 3D structures.

Multiple well shapes tailored for diverse cell types
Uniform spheroid formation
Improved biological relevance for cancer, toxicology, and regenerative studies

Whether you’re modeling tumor microenvironments or optimizing stem‑cell workflows, S‑BIO delivers the reliability your experiments demand.

Glycan Analysis

3D Cell Culture

Labware

Cryogenic Vials & Accessories

Microfluidics

Low Binding Labware Products

Maximize Recovery. Minimize Loss.

Non‑specific binding can compromise the accuracy and sensitivity of your assays. S‑BIO’s Low Bind labware is engineered to prevent protein, peptide, and compound adsorption onto plastic surfaces—ensuring optimal sample recovery.

Ideal for precious or low‑abundance samples
Essential for proteomics, peptide research, sequencing, and cell recovery
Delivers consistent performance across a wide range of biomolecules

Protect your samples. Elevate your results.

We Bring Glycomics to Life

Accelerate Glycan Analysis with High‑Throughput Tools and Services

Glycobiology is essential for understanding disease mechanisms, developing next‑gen biologics, and characterizing therapeutic antibodies. S‑BIO offers a comprehensive suite of glycomics tools, kits, and services, enabling researchers to analyze N‑glycans and O‑glycans with confidence.

High‑throughput glycan profiling
Optimized kits for precision and reproducibility
Solutions for biomarker discovery and biologics development

From discovery through characterization, S‑BIO empowers you to explore the world of glycosylation with clarity and ease.

Powered by Sumitomo Bakelite Co., Ltd.

As part of Sumitomo Bakelite Co., Ltd., S‑BIO builds on a century of material science excellence. Our products combine leading‑edge polymer technology with deep life‑science expertise to deliver tools that consistently outperform industry standards.

From cell biology to bioprocessing and glycobiology, S‑BIO is committed to helping scientists generate reproducible data, accelerate discovery, and push the boundaries of what’s possible.

Advance Your Research with S‑BIO. Explore our product lines and bring greater precision, reliability, and innovation to your research.

Customer Testimonials

Using the S-bio 96 Slit well plate has saved us an incredible amount of time and greatly increased the efficiency of our organoid production. The shared medium makes the organoids happier, makes feeding easier and eliminates risk of fusing. We use them exclusively!

Steve Lotz, director, NeuraCell

At University of Michigan, our lab relies on ultra-low attachment plates for high-throughput drug screening of cell lines and patient-derived organoids in 3D culture. S-Bio’s PrimeSurface® product line features the only white ultra-low attachment plates on the market. These plates offer superior signal when measuring viability via luminescence and allow us to collect exceptional data with less material compared to any other plates on the market.

Dr. Nathan Merrill, Research Investigator, Internal Medicine-Hematology/Oncology, University of Michigan.

We routinely assess drug-drug synergy across large dose ranges in 3D spheroid cultured cancer cells. SBio’s PrimeSurface White 384-well plates allow us to perform these luminescence experiments on a single plate, and have both dramatically increased our throughput and reduced variability between experiments

Rob Kortum, M.D., Ph.D. , Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences Best

We use PrimeSurface 384 well white plates (MS384WZ) for drug screening. The organoids grow well in these plates and the ATPase assay can be done very easily without additional transfer step. These plates are fantastic!

Anil Belur Nagaraj, Mayo Clinic

We have used Corning Ultra-low Attachment Plate to test new compounds in Drug Discovery. S-BIO PrimeSurface® spheroid 96 U bottom plates showed outstanding testing results highly comparable to Corning plates in 3D Cell Titer Glo® luminescence assays. We highly recommend PrimeSurface® (MS-9096WZ) spheroid ULA plates for Drug Discovery

Dr. Sangyub Kim, Zentalis Pharmaceuticals

We’ve used the S-BIO PrimeSurface spheroid 96 V bottom plates in formation of brain organoids. PrimeSurface (MS9096VZ) plates were an essential component for aggregation of stem cells into embryoid bodies to initiate organoid development.

Rami Tshuva , Weizmann Institute of Science

S-BIO’s EZGlyco™ mAb-N Kit with 2-AB makes preparing IgG glycans for HPLC analysis easy. The preparation time was streamlined from two days to two hours. Most importantly, the HPLC histograms generated from the kit looked exactly as they should.

Maya Kitaoka and Robert Anthony, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School

“We are developing image analysis technologies for multiple types of cancer spheroids. PrimeSurface U-bottom microplate shows low fluorescence background, which helps us gain high signal to noise ratio in spheroid images to realize quantitative image analysis. Also, Some cancer cell lines which did not aggregate as spheroids by other company products, successfully formed uniform spheroids in S-bio plates. S-bio plates are an essential tool in our routine spheroid culture work.”

Kazuhito Goda, Olympus Corporation

Working with an unusual O-glycan modification on a bacterial protein we needed a chemical method to determine how complex our glycan was. The kit worked extremely well for us for the two modified proteins we analyzed

Dr. Warren Wakarchuk, University of Alberta, GlycoNet

Publications

Publications

1507, 2026

Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) sample preparation with STEMFULL™ to handle cell suspensions.

admin2026-07-15T17:59:30-04:00July 15th, 2026|Comments Off on Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) sample preparation with STEMFULL™ to handle cell suspensions.

Shun Shibata, Shun Endo, Luis A. E. Nagai, Eri H. Kobayashi, Akira Oike, Norio Kobayashi, Akane Kitamura, Takeshi Hori, Yuji Nashimoto, Ryuichiro Nakato, Hirotaka Hamada, Hirokazu Kaji, Chie Kikutake, Mikita Suyama, Masatoshi Saito, Nobuo Yaegashi, [...]

2005, 2026

PrimeSurface Research: Generation of Human iPS Cell-Derived Kidney Organoids and Their Application in Drug Discovery Research

admin2026-05-22T15:41:40-04:00May 20th, 2026|Comments Off on PrimeSurface Research: Generation of Human iPS Cell-Derived Kidney Organoids and Their Application in Drug Discovery Research

Background The technology for generating organoids derived from iPS cells has brought about innovative advancements in regenerative medicine and drug discovery research in recent years. Organoids faithfully replicate the three-dimensional structures and functions of actual [...]

904, 2026

PrimeSurface Research: Mathematical modeling of multicellular tumor spheroids quantifies inter-patient and intra-tumor heterogeneity

admin2026-04-09T13:58:10-04:00April 9th, 2026|Comments Off on PrimeSurface Research: Mathematical modeling of multicellular tumor spheroids quantifies inter-patient and intra-tumor heterogeneity

Adam A. Malik, Kyle C. Nguyen, John T. Nardini, Cecilia C. Krona, Kevin B. Flores and Sven Nelander npj Syst Biol Appl 11, 20 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41540-025-00492-3 Copyright © Authors 2024 This article is licensed under [...]

BrainXell forms Uniform, Single 3D Spheroids using Human iPSC-induced Spinal Motor Neurons and Cortical Glutamatergic Neurons with S-BIO PrimeSurface plates

ProteoSave low bind tubes: Interesting publication from National Institute of Neuroscience, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Tokyo “Increased cerebrospinal fluid complement C5 levels in major depressive disorder and schizophrenia” published in Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, Volume 497, Issue 2, 4 March 2018, Pages 683-688 uses ProteoSave 15 ml low bind tubes.

Interesting article on Glycosylation analysis using orthogonal approaches published in the recent Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News

S-BIO introduces EZGlyco™ mAb-N Kit with 2-AB

S-BIO introduces new application of PrimeSurface® 3D (low cell attachment plate) in 3D tissue engineering.

PrimeSurface Application – Brightfield and Fluorescence Imaging using 3D PrimeSurface® Ultra-Low Attachment Microplates