Applications — Manufacturing — Cell Counting & Viability
Overview
Guava ViaCount provides a more realistic assessment of cell viability by measuring a significant number of cells as apoptotic that trypan blue counts as viable, giving engineers an opportunity to to maintain cell viability and productivity by altering cell culture conditions earlier in their process.Because Guava PCA and associated reagents operate in one-third to one-fifth the time of microscopy and flow cytometry, respectively, the Guava systems provide convenient, accurate, and rapid in-process cell viability measurements in systems under apoptosis-inducing stress.
The Guava ViaCount Assay is fast becoming the new standard for viability and cell counting. In this simple no-wash, mix-and-read assay, you can:
- Accurately obtain absolute total cell counts
- Perform viability assessments
- Determine apoptotic percentages
Features and Benefits
- Assay
 • Counts up to 10 times faster than manual methods
 • More reproducible than traditional tests
- Samples
 • Handles low-density and small-volume cell samples
 • Works with adherent or suspended cells and mammalian and insect cells
The ViaCount Assay analyzes cells based on differential permeabilities of two DNA-binding dyes. The nuclear dye stains only nucleated cells, while the viability dye brightly stains dying cells. Debris is excluded from results based on negative staining with the nuclear dye.
| The blue population of cells show a significant amount of annexin V staining (bottom plot), indicating that intermediate levels of staining with the viability dye correlates with apoptosis. | Increased reproducibility in ELISPOT assays when using Guava ViaCount assay for cell counting. |
| Guava ViaCount assay provides accurate cell counts. Comparisons with an impedance counter and manual trypan blue hemocytometer counting indicated greater linearity and accuracy over a rang of cell concentrations. Expected cell counts were determined using an FDA-cleared reference counting bead method. |
Additional ViaCount Reagents; For dilute, non-mammalian and clumpy cells
- ViaCount Flex Reagent
 • Cell lines that stain heterogeneously (facilitates gate settings by providing tighter staining patterns)  » Learn More...
- ViaCount Flex Reagent for Challenging Samples
- Guava ViaCount Cell Dispersal Reagent


