Craft brewers enhance brewing process and product taste using the Cellometer X1 and X2 instruments

Avery Brewing Company in Boulder, Colorado has introduced a Cellometer to their brewing process, improving their procedures, as well as the product’s taste and quality. The Cellometer is employed as a quality control check over the yeast cells inside the facility’s fermenters. Making sure the yeast cells fermenting the beer are healthy and enzymatically active ensures a high quality product, with fewer mutated and/or dying cells that can negatively affect the beer’s flavor. Adam, the owner  of Avery Brewing Co. says that the Cellometer has “changed the way we made beer and it also changed the way our beer tastes”.   Watch this episode of [...]

Measuring Apoptosis and Necrosis Cell Populations by Heat and Compound Induction using the Cellometer Vision

It's White Paper Wednesday! Read our featured white paper: Measuring Apoptosis and Necrosis Cell Populations by Heat and Compound Induction using the Cellometer Vision Recently, a new imaging cytometry system has been developed by Nexcelom Bioscience LLC (Lawrence, MA, USA) for fluorescence-based cell population analysis [1, 2]. Originally, the system has been used for automated cell concentration and viability measurement using disposable counting slides with both bright-field (BR) and fluorescent (FL) imaging methods [3]. The system has recently been demonstrated to perform fast and accurate cell population analysis comparable to the traditional flow cytometry method. Download our white paper »

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Non-Disruptive Quantification of 2° Reprogrammed iPS Colonies Using Celigo Imaging Cytometer

Celigo  imaging cytometer has been applied to provide automated, rapid assessment of iPSC reprogramming.

Comparison of Trypan Blue and Fluorescence-Based Viability Detection Methods Via Morphological Observation

It's White Paper Wednesday! Read our featured white paper: Comparison of Trypan Blue and Fluorescence-Based Viability Detection Methods Via Morphological Observation Determining cell viability is a vital component in many biological experiments that range from standard cell culture to the investigation of pharmacological agents on tumor cells. One of the earliest and most common methods for measuring cell viability is the trypan blue (TB) exclusion assay [1, 2]. Over the last two decades, there have been various publications on comparing TB exclusion and fluorescence-based cellular viability assays [1, 3-5]. Previous results have shown that in a time-course measurement, TB exclusion [...]

Automated Method for Determination of Infectious Dose (TCID50) using Celigo Imaging Cytometer

It's White Paper Wednesday! Read our featured white paper: Automated Method for Determination of Infectious Dose (TCID50) using Celigo Imaging Cytometer Nexcelom's Celigo imaging cytometer has been applied to provide automated, rapid assessment of viral infectivity in a range of plate formats [4]. Using f-theta optics, Celigo provides high quality, whole-well images using bright field and/or fluorescent illumination. Automated segmentation and analysis provide quantitative and objective output of CPE based on characteristic changes to the host cell monolayer. Download our white paper »

Characterization of Breast Cancer Drugs via Mammosphere Morphometric Analysis Using Celigo Imaging Cytometer

It's White Paper Wednesday! Read our featured white paper: Characterization of Breast Cancer Drugs via Mammosphere Morphometric Analysis Using Celigo Imaging Cytometer A panel of cytotoxic drugs, including doxorubicin and paclitaxel were used to study their effects on various breast cancer cell lines such as MDA-MD-436, MCF-7, SKBR3 and MDA-MB-231. Results show that the Colony Counting application can also be used to evaluate the clonogenicity and self-renewal of cancer stem/tumor-initiating cells by automatically analyzing mammosphere populations. The Colony Counting application on Celigo provides an efficient, reproducible and automated method for assessing the number, size, and morphology of cancer spheroids within [...]

Measuring Physiological and Metabolic Characteristics of Yeast Health for Beer Fermentation Samples using the Cellometer Vision

It's White Paper Wednesday! Read our featured white paper: Measuring Physiological and Metabolic Characteristics of Yeast Health for Beer Fermentation Samples using the Cellometer Vision Characteristics such as the viability, vitality, glycogen, neutral lipid, and trehalose content of yeast samples must be measured to better understand changes in physiological and metabolic status during fermentation [4-9]. Monitoring changes of these parameters during fermentation can improve current production processes, and a subset of these parameters (glycogen, neutral lipid, and trehalose content) has been shown to play an important role in predicting yeast viability both during and after fermentation [10, 11]. Download our [...]

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Nexcelom’s Celigo Detects CRISPR Transfection Efficiency of sgRNA in CHO Cells

Novel web-based tool ensures efficient, fast, and low-cost genetic manipulation of CHO cells for future biopharmaceutical applications.

Comparing Fluorescence-Based Viability Detection Method using the Cellometer Vision

It's White Paper Wednesday! Read our featured white paper: Comparing Fluorescence-Based Viability Detection Method using the Cellometer Vision In this work, Cellometer Vision was employed to demonstrate rapid fluorescence-based viability measurements and the comparison of various fluorescent staining methods. First, fluorescent nucleic acid stains that examine membrane integrity were tested and validated by comparing against the standard trypan blue exclusion method. Similarly, fluorescent enzymatic stains that examine metabolic activities were tested and validated against the standard trypan blue exclusion method. Third, nucleic acid and enzymatic stains were compared by measuring viabilities of Jurkat cells incubated at different temperatures of water [...]

Cellometer Vision tracks apoptosis in embryonic neural stem cells after propofol exposure

Introduction Propofol, a widely used general anesthetic, has been shown to produce neurotoxicity in neonatal animal experiments [1-5]. The possible detrimental effects of anesthetics, particularly in developing brains, require further study, as recent studies suggest that general anesthesia given to children younger than four years of age can increase the chances of learning disabilities later in life [6]. Here, researchers used embryonic neural stem cells to investigate the neurotoxic effects of propofol in vitro. Materials and Methods Cell culture and drug exposure Embryonic neural stem cells were collected from embryonic day 16 Sprague-Dawley rats. Resulting cells were cultured in 96-well [...]

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