Cellular imaging device CV8000

The CV8000 features a cell incubator with an improved airtight design that facilitates the observation of cell behavior over long periods of time. In addition, the CV8000 comes with CellPathfinder, a new program that can analyze images of unlabeled cells and 3D images of samples. With these features, the CV8000 improves the efficiency of drug discovery research and biomedical research on leading-edge subjects such as iPS and ES cells. Within the drug development market, demands on high content analysis systems for drug efficacy evaluation are increasing in accordance with the needs for cell-based assay and phenotypic screening. In order to increase screening efficiency, devices with higher speeds (higher throughput) are required. On the other hand, in order to bridge the “valley of death” of the drug development process, the quality of screening hits must be increased. This requires the construction of more complex evaluation systems that utilize multifaceted parameters via 3D cultivation systems, live-cell imaging and higher detail image analysis. In current drug development research, determining how to implement throughput screening and complex evaluation system screening in parallel is an important issue Solution The CellVoyager CV8000 is a high-end, high content analysis system that solves this contradictory screening challenge. Through the combination of a proprietary Yokogawa high speed confocal scanner, water immersion lens, up to four high field-of-vision cameras, a microscopic stage with cell cultivation environment, and an integrated robotic pipetter, we have realized not only high throughput, high-resolution imaging,