Cell Culture Microscopy

Learn how ECHO systems help study cell cuture and produce groundbreaking discoveries.

ECHO Applications

Cell Culture in Microscopy

Microscopes are an essential window into cell culture, allowing researchers to visualize and monitor cells outside a living organism. Scientists can assess cell health, track growth rates, and observe cellular behaviors in real time. From basic brightfield imaging to advanced fluorescence techniques that illuminate specific proteins and organelles, microscopy is the cornerstone of biological research, drug discovery, and regenerative medicine.

We’ve developed our microscopes to create a pain-free imaging experience that delivers the data you need. Rebel is our ideal Tissue Culture system with brightfield and phase contrast, while Revolve is our more advanced system, adding fluorescence and higher-level imaging capabilities such as z-stack.

Cell culture is unnecessarily difficult

Researchers shouldn’t spend their time troubleshooting their equipment from both a hardware and software perspective. Traditional microscopes notoriously create friction at every step of the cell culture workflow. Here’s how ECHO changes that.

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ⓧ Clunky, oversized equipment

Traditional microscopes eat up precious bench space and make collaborative viewing nearly impossible with eyepieces.

ⓧ Slow, complex workflows

Capturing, annotating, and sharing images involves multiple steps, software installs, and formatting headaches.

ⓧ Dark room dependency

Imaging requires dedicated dark rooms. This creates scheduling conflicts and interrupts lab workflow for routine checks.

ⓧ Costly upgrades and add-ons

Hardware-tied features means your expensive scope is outdated the moment a new model ships.

✓ Compact with integrated iPad

A small footprint microscope with an integrated tablet everyone can see. This enables natural and immediate collaboration.

✓ Flexible, instant data export

Annotate your images instantly with scale bars, measurements, and notes, then export in your preferred format.

✓ No dark room required

ECHO's ambient-light-friendly design lets you image right at your bench, any time, without disrupting anyone else.

✓ Upgrades via Software

New capabilities delivered via software. Your ECHO system gets better over time, automatically.

World-Class Components Show Cells Like You've Never Seen Them Before

Observe cell cultures with unparalleled clarity through world-class optical components, viewed on an Ultra High-Resolution Display. Rebel and Revolve both utilize iPad’s stunning liquid retina display.

High-Performance Objective Lenses.
Sputter-Coated Optical Filters.
Apple iPad Liquid Retina Display.

Confluency, now available for Rebel and Revolve

Confluency is a routine cell culture step, but one of the most subjective. The same flask can read 60% to one person and 75% to another, and that variability affects your passaging decisions, transfection timing, and reproducibility.

Our Confluency AI is built directly into Rebel and Revolve through our software. Designed for everyday cell culture workflows, return a quantitative cell-coverage percentage the moment you capture an image.

No guesswork, no inconsistency, just a reliable number every time.

Beautiful Images Ready For Scientific Publication

The combination of high-quality optics and image processing allows you to capture and export publication-ready images of your cells.

With ECHO’s innovative imaging technology, you get the best of both worlds with zero trade-offs: cell culture data and the big picture in one. Ready to share with your lab, or the world.

Digital Cell Haze Reduction

Widefield fluorescence cell imaging can suffer a hazy appearance from out-of-focus light.

ECHO’s proprietary Digital Haze Reduction (DHR) software suppresses noise and reduces blur to reveal stunningly crisp cellular images. (Available with Revolve)

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See why customers love ECHO for cell culture applications!



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ECHO's microscopes, perfect for your cell culture needs

Revolve

Powerful Research-Level Cell Imaging Microscope

Our more advanced solution for cell culture. This system allows you to image in upright and inverted as well as brightfield, phase contrast, and 4 channel fluorescence. Revolve also enables more advanced imaging such as z-stack and image enhancement with digital haze reduction.

Rebel

Workhorse Microscope Ideal For Tissue Culture

Our Rebel microscope allows you to image in upright and inverted with both brightfield and phase contrast capabilities. Ideal for quick health checks and fits inside bio-safety cabinet. Can be sanitized with ethanol. Loved in many Tissue Culture Rooms due to it's small compact design.

Have a Question?

Our award-winning service team is available and can offer on-site, phone, or video support. Please contact or chat us so we can help.

Yes, we provide both virtual and in-person training for our customers. Additionally, every microscope is preloaded with our interactive iBooks manual. This is a great training tool for new lab members or as an easy refresher for existing users.

We have microscopy specialists globally available for technical questions, product demonstrations, and support. Please contact or chat us so we can help.

Yes, we offer both virtual and onsite product demonstrations of our microscopes. We follow CDC guidelines for masking and social distancing during our in-person demos. Please schedule a demo to schedule a demo for your lab.

Upright microscopes are only capable of viewing glass slides. Inverted microscopes are optimized to view live and fixed samples in well plates, dishes, and flasks. Our microscopes’ ability to easily convert from an upright to an inverted means that your microscope can be optimized for each sample.

Our microscopes are optimized to view samples and cells prepared on slides, well plates, petri dishes, flasks, and hemocytometers.

We work with Chroma Technologies and offer all the standard filters sets from UV to Cy7. We can also provide custom filter sets to fit your specific applications. Please contact or chat us.

We offer a 1-year warranty. We also offer extended warranty packages.

Software updates are free and easily installed through the App Store.

Yes, we work with and can recommend several finance companies to help you structure a lease option that works best for your timing and budget. We are also happy to work with your finance company as well. Please contact or chat us.

Yes, please contact or chat us us so we may send you a list of publications in your field of research.

We believe pricing should be transparent. Try our quote builder to build and price your own system.

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We offer a full solution ideal for keeping your sample healthy over a long period of time. Specifically we control temperature, CO2, humidity, and can accommodate hypoxia conditions.

Yes you can easily take the incubation box off the microscope. The entire box is one piece and slides out from the front.

Yes, our incubator is box style which keeps all the optical components in the same thermal conditions and shields the system from the outside environment. We also offer autofocus which will find the focus of your samples for your desired channel and hold that over time.

Our incubation is offered on the Revolution microscope.

Yes, you can easily add full incubation to your Revolution microscope after it is installed.

Want to see our microscopes in action? Schedule an in-person demo for your samples or a quick 10-minute virtual demo.