Nanopoint Introduces the Newest Member of the cellTRAY^® Imaging Systems Family of Products

Nanopoint is introducing its cellTRAY Imaging System Model CT-2000 at LabAutomation 2008. The novel microfluidic system enables up to 10 parallel experiments over extended periods of time utilizing a new “lab-on-a-chip” type cellTRAY slide, along with a small fluidics controller and incubator that fits onto a standard microscope stage.

"Nanopoint continues to focus on innovative products that solve problems for research scientists and pharmaceutical companies," said Cathy Owen, president of Nanopoint, Inc. "Working along with our beta test customers, our product team is focused on developing innovative solutions for customers around the world, and we're proud to release our new system for stem cell researchers and scientists working with nanoparticles-based fluidic delivery and imaging applications."

Nanopoint's cellTRAY Imaging Systems create new standards of precision and levels of efficiency for the study of individual and small groups of live cells, creates new approaches for multiple cell analysis and simultaneous processing and are the first solutions to enable multi-day time lapse imaging of live cells. Nanopoint’s award-winning cellTRAY provides a microarray of etched wells in a lab-on-a-chip-type device the size of a microscope slide and includes fluidic channels necessary for delivery of drug compounds, nanoparticles and long-term life supporting fluidics.

Also on show At LabAutomation 2008, will be the new cellTRAY Dish, designed to contain the cellTRAY (or any standard microscope slide) during the cell loading, incubation, washing, and staining stages of an experiment.