Cytation - Hybrid Multimode Reader

• Modular and upgradable to meet current and future workflow requirements 
• Patented Hybrid Technology optics with the sensitivity of filters and flexibility of monochromators
• Variable bandwidth monochromators optimize fluorophore detection
• 100 mW laser for speed and performance-based excitation for Alpha assays
• Micro-volume nucleic acid and protein quantification with the Take3 Micro-Volume Plate
• Peltier Cooling Module maintains environmental stability for uncompromised assay integrity

Cytation Cell Imaging Multimode Readers are uniquely designed to support applications across automated digital microscopy and conventional multi-mode detection. Here we highlight a few key application areas.

Modular, upgradable design  

Although your lab may only be working with multimode workflows now, assay demands may change in the future. Cytation’s modularity offers the ability to add automated digital microscopy to the multi-mode system to adapt as your research requirements change.
 
Patented Hybrid optics

Cytation 5 features a patented, hybrid optical design, with filter-based fluorescence optics for high transmission and high sensitivity, and monochromator optics for convenience and assay flexibility. Multiple fluorescence measurement modes include fluorescence intensity, time-resolved fluorescence and fluorescence polarization.
 
Variable bandwidth monochromators

Cytation multimode configurations can include quad monochromators with variable bandwidths, selectable from 9 nm to 50 nm, in 1 nm increments. Variable bandwidths allow you to optimize detection conditions for fluorophores that have unique excitation or emission parameters, for example, a narrow Stokes shift, to provide better performance than conventional monochromators.
 
100 mW Alpha Laser

Laser-based excitation in Cytation 5 offers the power required to get great sensitivity and fast reading speeds, which are critical for Alpha assays.

Peltier Cooling for environmental stability

The Peltier Cooling Module facilitates interior cool down after incubated processes, to allow efficient switching between multiple applications without unwanted temperature influences. For temperature sensitive assays typically run at ambient, or room temperature, the Cooling Module maintains environmental stability within Cytation, allowing < 1 °C rise in ambient temperature, regardless of external and internal temperature fluctuation.