CytoSMART Omni live-cell imaging Time-lapse brightfield imaging to study cell health, viability, colony formation and migration Users can perform kinetic assays that capture cellular behavior for days or even weeks at a time. full plate overview cell level detail Wound healing (scratch) assay A wound healing assay was performed on C6 rat glioma cells in a 48-well plate. The gap closure is automatically imaged every hour for a 17 hour period, from inside a CO2-incubator. This assay is used to study the migration of a cell population after a wound (scratch) has been made in a confluent monolayer of cells. The CytoSMART Omni automatically collects brightfield images of this process. Integrated image analysis algorithms in the CytoSMART Cloud provide information on the gap surface area and closure speed over time, over the full well surface. The highlighted blue areas in the image indicate the empty spaces between the cells, which have been recognized by the algorithm. Both the numerical data and images can easily be extracted after analysis. Other applications using the CytoSMART Omni include, cell proliferation assays, whole well confluency detection and colony counting.* https://www.cytosmart.com/products/omni *Research use only. Not intended for diagnostic purposes