CytoSMART Lux3 FL fluorescence live-cell imaging microscope

The CytoSMART Lux3 FL is a small live-cell imaging microscope equipped with one brightfield and two fluorescent channels (green and red). The device enables researchers to unravel cellular processes in real time, while the cells are kept in a controlled environment inside a standard cell culture incubator. The fluorescence live-cell imager allows users to track dynamic cellular processes with high specificity by taking high-quality images to create real-time time-lapse movies.

Currently, fluorescent labelling is mostly used as an end-point measurement. However, time-lapse imaging of live cells can give much more information about biological processes. By using automated imaging at regular time intervals, the temporal resolution of the fluorescent data should be increased, leading to more relevant data about the cellular processes. Researchers can therefore not only determine if a certain process has occurred, but when it occurred and at what speed.

The microscope enables integrated image analysis of bright-field and fluorescence area or fluorescence object count. There are an expanded number of variables that researchers can analyse in their cell culture using green and red fluorescence. The device is portable, easy to use and incubator friendly, offering remote data accessibility via the CytoSMART Cloud with a smartphone, tablet or laptop outside the lab.