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Conducting successful live-cell imaging studies presents a significant challenge for many labs. How do you continuously monitor your cells without disrupting the environment needed for their survival?
Traditional methods often require removing cells from the incubator, exposing them to environmental stressors that can compromise your results. This disruption can cause irreversible damage to delicate cellular processes, potentially ruining weeks of careful preparation and making your entire experiment unsuccessful. The ECHO Cellcyte Live Cell Imaging and Analysis system is engineered to solve this problem, operating directly within your standard cell culture incubator.
This approach eliminates common pain points associated with other live-cell analyzers, offering an intuitive, accessible, and powerful alternative for your long-term experiments. With the Cellcyte, you gain the ability to perform uninterrupted analysis, ensuring your data is both reliable and reproducible.
With traditional live-cell analyzers you may be familiar with the common frustrations that can slow down your research. Scientists often face several pain points that create unnecessary hurdles:
Complex Software: Many systems feature software with steep learning curves, requiring extensive training and wasting valuable research time.
Closed Designs: Rigid, closed-instrument designs make it difficult to access your cells for adjustments or perform routine system maintenance and cleaning.
Environmental Disruption: The need to move cells out of their ideal, controlled incubator environment can introduce stress, leading to altered cellular behavior and affecting the viability of your experiment.
High Costs: The prohibitive cost of many live-cell imaging systems puts this critical technology out of reach for labs with limited budgets.
These limitations can hinder your lab’s productivity and impact the quality of your data.
At Discover Echo, we decided to develop the Cellcyte 1 by researching the primary frustrations customers experienced with existing live-cell analyzers. Our research revealed two paramount needs: easy access to cells and intuitive software. By simplifying cell handling and data analysis, the Cellcyte 1 makes it quick and efficient to generate reliable experimental data. Built-in analysis and graphic tools allow you to visualize results and draw conclusions without relying on additional software or time-consuming data transfers. This streamlined workflow helps you move from imaging to actionable insights faster than ever before.
Our core goal was to create a live-cell imaging and analysis system that puts you, the scientist, in complete control. We designed a system that enables you to perform experiments as efficiently and successfully as possible. This user-focused approach ensures the Cellcyte delivers reliable and reproducible results every time.
The Cellcyte live cell imager and analyzer is packed with features designed to accelerate your research and provide exceptional results. By directly addressing the problems with existing systems, we’ve created a solution that is powerful, flexible, and easy to use.
The Cellcyte features a unique open-frame design, a deliberate choice to guarantee the best possible conditions for cell viability and high-quality imaging. This open design provides much easier access to your cells during an experiment and dramatically simplifies system maintenance and cleaning [1]. You no longer have to struggle with a restrictive, closed box to manage your cultures or maintain your equipment.
The Cellcyte software utilizes an intuitive user interface that eliminates the lengthy training sessions associated with other systems. You can set up and start running your experiments within minutes, not days, saving valuable time and resources. This ease of use ensures you are always in control and can efficiently manage your experimental parameters.
The primary advantage of the Cellcyte’s compact live cell imager design is its ability to fit and operate entirely inside your standard incubator. This allows you to run experiments for days, or even weeks, without disturbing the cells or altering their environment. By maintaining precise temperature and atmospheric control, you generate more physiologically relevant data, as your cells are not subjected to the stress of temperature fluctuations or other external variables [2].
The Cellcyte system is designed for continuous, unattended 24/7 live-cell monitoring and data acquisition. It operates reliably through nights, weekends, and holidays, automatically capturing high-quality data to ensure experiments are never interrupted, without manual intervention or after-hours staffing. This hands-off operation prevents missed events, increases experimental throughput, and frees your team from physically handling samples or manually recording data at inconvenient times so you can focus on analysis and accelerating research progress.
The Cellcyte 1 enables true high-throughput live-cell imaging, running up to six plates simultaneously. This allows you to gather more data in less time, dramatically increasing experimental efficiency compared to single-plate systems. Importantly, samples remain immobile, while other systems, particularly single-plate setups, may require plate transportation mechanisms that can disturb or damage sensitive samples. By keeping plates stationary, Cellcyte ensures reliable, reproducible data and increases throughput without compromising sample integrity.
Echo is committed to making powerful scientific tools accessible to more labs. The Cellcyte live cell analyzer is significantly more affordable than other analyzers on the market, without compromising on performance or features.
The Cellcyte 1 system starts at $66,387. This price point makes high-throughput live cell imaging a reality for more labs of all sizes. You can build and price your ECHO system in minutes to perfectly match a system to your lab’s imaging needs and budget.
The Cellcyte 1 live cell imager brings real-time, in-incubator analysis to your lab with enhanced automation and imaging flexibility. This system starts at $66,387.
Key features include:
3 fluorescence channels for versatile imaging capabilities.
High-throughput capability, imaging up to 6 vessels concurrently.
Real-time imaging and data analysis from within the incubator to monitor your experiment as it unfolds.
Supports a wide range of applications, including cell counting, apoptosis, cytotoxicity, spheroid growth, and immune cell cluster formation.
To ensure you get the most out of your imaging system, proper experimental setup is crucial. For long-term growth and proliferation assays, accurate sample labeling is critical for tracking samples and ensuring the integrity of your results over time. Taking the time to establish a clear and durable labeling protocol will help you avoid errors and produce clean, reliable data from your live cell assays [3].
When evaluating live cell analyzers, you need to consider both your imaging requirements and cells’ health. There are many live cell imaging systems available, like Cellcyte 1 live cell imager, that are useful for continuous live-cell monitoring and high-throughput imaging. Many researchers struggle to identify which technology is best for their applications. The choice becomes clear when you compare system capabilities and how they maintain optimal culture conditions.
To help you evaluate your options, here’s a comparison of key features between the ECHO Cellcyte 1 and other live cell imaging systems:
The ECHO Cellcyte 1 Live Cell Imaging and Analysis System represents a practical solution for life science research. Developed in direct response to the limitations of existing systems, the Cellcyte prioritizes user experience, cell viability, and cost efficiency.
By combining an intuitive, easy-to-use software with an open-design and powerful advanced features, the Cellcyte is the ideal choice for any lab looking to perform reliable and reproducible long-term live cell imaging and analysis.
See the difference for yourself and request a demo to experience Cellcyte in action.
[1] https://cytena.com/products/live-cell-imaging/cellcyte-x
[2] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10685113
[3] https://blog.labtag.com/what-you-need-to-consider-when-labeling-samples-for-growth-proliferation-assays