Life sciences researchers are gathering more and more information on cellular mechanisms and cell and tissue culture techniques. Understanding cell culture behavior and evaluating cellular health requires extensive training and experience. Processes like cell subculturing, growth rates and nutrition depletion require an experts intuition and trial-and-error based optimization. To communicate these findings is not straightforward. Personal teaching is ideal, but in many cases not manageable. As such video monitoring of cell cultures can be highly beneficial to showcase the progression of cell cultures in an intuitive manner.
The CytoSMART Lux2 provides an easy and cost-effective solution for time-lapse imaging. Monitor cell proliferation, motility and morphology for hours up to weeks at a time. The CytoSMART Lux2 is a compact inverted lab microscope for bright-field live cell imaging. It works from inside any standard CO2-incubator and can be used in routine cell culture processes.
Live insight in cell health and growth rates
Automated live cell microscopy with a remote connection
Culturing cells can be a black-box experiment. In between inspection rounds assumptions are made of cell growth rates and cell viability based on the researchers experience. Using the CytoSMART Lux2, these assumptions are redundant as time-lapse movies are automatically generated and can be assessed immediately. Obtain real-time updates of the health of your cells, even during image acquisition.
Online connection to inspect your cell cultures
Remote access helps to decide when it’s time to go to the lab
CytoSMART’s compact cell video monitoring system can film living cells without disturbing their growth. The device is accessible from an online environment, thus enabling researchers to look at their cell cultures and assess what the next steps are, without having to step into the laboratory.
Perfect timing of subculturing
Use the CytoSMART Lux2 confluence notification service
Using cell monitoring software, users can set alerts for target confluence levels. You will receive a notification email once your cell culture has reached the set confluence and is ready for subculture or experiments, such as transfection. The notification system uses CytoSMART’s cloud-based image analysis algorithms. Recorded images are analyzed in real-time to determine the confluence level (% occupied area), providing insight in proliferation rates.
Morphology, Migration, Cytotoxicity, Proliferation and more.
This live cell microscope creates images and movies that contain many cellular features, which can be extracted using image analysis tools.
Monitor cellular behavior over time and investigate how cells respond and interact with their environment. See our overview of applications and assays that can be performed using the CytoSMART Lux2.
Monitor cells in their optimized environment
Easily fits in your incubator
Dependent on growth speed and experimental conditions, cell cultures progress over periods of hours, days or even weeks. To maintain cell health, or to perform biological assays, cells should be kept at the required environmental conditions throughout the entire experiment. The CytoSMART Lux2 is compact, its size is comparable to a large culture flask, so it comfortably fits inside any standard CO2– or hypoxia incubator, ensuring your cells will remain at the desired environmental conditions.
Use the appropriate culture vessel for your cells or experiment
Monitor cells inside flasks, microfluidic chips and more
The open design of the CytoSMART Lux2 allows users to image any transparent culture vessel, including culture flasks, well plates, petri dishes and microfluidic chips. It’s rapid recording interval makes the CytoSMART Lux2 extremely suitable for live-cell imaging of cells cultured inside lab-on-a-chip platforms or micro Total Analysis Systems (µTAS). The CytoSMART Lux2 can be used to investigate organ-on-a-chip systems, the effect of fluid flow on cells or single cell migration inside a chip.
Lux2 Duo Kit package
Perform comparison studies with live cell imaging
The CytoSMART Lux2 Duo Kit is a compact automated system, specifically designed to operate from within CO2– incubators and hypoxia chambers. Two devices operate via a single laptop, saving precious lab space.
CytoSMART Multi Lux package
Run long-term non-invasive, label-free image analysis
Multi Lux is a cost-effective solution for researchers who want to carry out side-by-side comparisons between cell cultures, run long-term experiments, and monitor cells from their home’s comfort.
Technical specifications
| Optics | Bright-field only with digital phase contrast |
|---|---|
| Magnification | 10x fixed objective |
| Fluorescence Filters | N/A |
| Camera | 5MP CMOS |
| Image Formats | JPG, XLSX and MP4 |
| Image Size | 960 x 960 pixels |
| Field of View | 1.84 x 1.84 mm |
| Culture | well-plates, petri dishes, flasks, microfluidic chips and custom culture vessels |
| Computer Requirements | Windows 10 |
| Power Supply | AC 100-240V, 2A, 10W, 50/60HZ |
| Dimensions | 13.3 x 9.0 x 10.0 cm (L x W x H) |
| 5.2 x 3.5 x 3.9 in (L x W x H) | |
| Weight | 0.5 kg (1.1 lb) |
| Operating Conditions | 0 – 42 °C, 5-95% humidity |
| Warranty | 1 year parts & labor |
| Research use only. Not intended for diagnostic purposes |
