OREANDA-NEWS. Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces the May release of the CQ1, a confocal quantitative image cytometer that uses images of cell cultures to accurately and efficiently quantify the morphological features of individual cells. The CQ1 is able to obtain accurate results without the need to separate the cells in a cell cluster or remove them from a culture dish, improving the efficiency of testing.

The CQ1 will be on display at an exhibition that will be held concurrently with the General Meeting of the Japanese Society for Regenerative Medicine from March 4 to 6 at the Kyoto International Conference Center.

Yokogawa will continue to expand its life sciences business by developing new products for research, cell culture quality control, and testing applications in regenerative medicine and other fields that enjoy good prospects for growth.

The CSU can be attached to an ordinary optical microscope to form a confocal microscope system. Yokogawa's CSU employs an innovative design that combines the use of microlens arrays with a Nipkow disk. An extremely high contrast clear image can be obtained at any focal distance by using a laser to irradiate a sample that has been dyed with a fluorescent reagent. Sliced images can be obtained in situ without splitting a sample into sections, and three-dimensional models can be created from the sliced image data. These features make the CSU a powerful tool, and it is used by research institutes around the world to view dynamic real-time changes in cells. Over 2,200 CSUs have been delivered to date.