Boston, MA, USA, December 19, 2023 /Globe Newswire/ — Thrive Bioscience Inc., a provider of innovative automated live cell imaging instruments and software, debuted its CellAssist Software Release 5.0, a new integrated suite of advanced live cell imaging capabilities in December at Cell Bio 2023, the annual meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology. CellAssist Release 5.0 will be launched in mid-2024 with Beta versions of the software available now to collaborators and customers.
CellAssist Software Release 5.0 adds many major capabilities to the already powerful CellAssist family of live cell imagers, including accurate label-free cell counting and determining confluence levels, imaging and measuring organoids in 96- and 384-well round and flat bottom plates, the addition of quantitative phase imaging (QPI), email/text alerts to users when designated confluence levels are reached, and the ability to run CellAssist’s analytical software from remote laptops. Thrive’s implementation of QPI, combined with proprietary algorithms, enables Thrive’s superior cell counting, confluence measuring, and computed DIC imaging.
CellAssist instruments provide previously unavailable capabilities in imaging adherent cells, stem cells, suspension cells, and 3D cell structures by automatically and precisely capturing 1,000’s of time-series images with 100+ focal planes, vastly improving drug screening, viral plaque assays, gene editing (CRISPR), and stem cell research and production.