Well, What Is A Well Plate? A well plate has many naming variations including, microplate, microwells, microtiter, and multiwell plates. The well plate is a flat plate that looks like a tray with multiple wells that are used as small test tubes.. The well plates are commonly manufactured in a 2:3 rectangular mix with 96, […]
The History Of The Microplate
The First Microplate The well plate or microplate was created in 1951 by Hungarian physician, scientist, and inventor Dr. Gyula Takátsy, who hand-machined 6 rows of 12 “wells” out of Poly(methyl methacrylate (PMMA) or more commonly know by its trade name as Lucite. PMMA was developed in 1928 in various labs by multiple chemists and became commercially […]