View Your Culture in Real Time

If you are working with cell culture, then you know well that advances in cellular and molecular biology studies have revolutionized the diagnosis and treatment of many different diseases. For a wide range of applications, cell culture needs to be done right and more importantly, cells need to be monitored perfectly!

Whether you are working on microbiology, immuno-oncology or conducting drug discovery processes, you will need to monitor your cells in culture. To this end OLS provides you a perfect mix of an incubator and microscope, the Incubator Microscope zenCELL owl.

The zenCell Owl is a high-quality incubator-microscope system that is very easy to setup and allows you to view your cell culture in real-time. It is a powerful tool to add to your lab to monitor 2D and 3D Cell Culture and image-based assays in cell biology studies, with an automated and simple setup. Its algorithms automatically evaluate the cell coverage and cell number at fixed time intervals. This creates consistent, reproducible and reliable results with no subjective scope of interpretation, while easing your day-to-day workload. Take a look below at its impressive features and get in touch!

Simplify the monitoring of your cell cultures

The zenCELL owl is a live cell imaging device. This real-time incubator microscope system has 24 independent mini-microscopes which enable a simultaneous observation of your cell cultures.

It is that easy: Install the free software, place the zenCELL owl in your incubator, connect it via USB 3.0 to your own laboratory computer and it is ready for use. There is no need for an additional power supply. Create a new Project in the Software, put the cells in their defined conditions and start monitoring them live from outside on your computer screen. Culture quality and data can be comfortably checked from your PC – anywhere and anytime without entering the lab.

Acquire images while cells stay where they belong – in the incubator: The zenCELL owl automatically images the 24 wells in a frequency of your choice, with a minimum interval of 10 min. Long term measurements can be performed over time periods of a few hours up to many days. Different microscopic techniques, like Brightfield, Darkfield and even Digital Phase Contrast are available. Zoom down to cell level, capture high quality photos or create time-lapse videos.

Benefit from a wide range of possible applications.

​Some examples

• Documentation and analysis of cell growth
• Comparison and analysis of extracellular conditions (e.g. glucose concentration, pH value or different mediums)
• Continuously determining cell confluence in 24 spots
• Analysing effects of component on cell cultures (e.g. cytotoxicity or biocompatibility)
• Migration or Scratch assays
• Stem cell observation