The company behind CellCount.
Vitr was founded in Oslo to make one of the most repeated measurements in a biology lab into one a lab can stand behind, without asking the lab to buy an instrument it does not need.
No two counts agree.
Counting cells is everyday work: how many are alive, how many are dead, how many per millilitre. It is also one of the least reproducible measurements in the building. Published studies put the spread at about 5% when one lab re-counts the same beads, 14.6% between labs counting beads of a known concentration, and roughly 20% between two blinded experts counting the same cell cultures. A great deal of downstream work rests on that number.
The usual answer is a benchtop counter with its own cassettes, its own consumables and its own opinion, and the lab keeps the hemocytometer anyway. We took a different view. The microscope on the bench is a perfectly good instrument. What was missing was a reader that counts the same way for everyone, shows its work on the image, and keeps a record.
That reader is CellCount. The figures above, with their sources, and the benchmark against a leading automated counter are on the validation page.
What makes CellCount accessible.
It works with the hardware and consumables a lab already has, and it is easy from the first count. That is how we are building the most accessible cell counter in the world.
Works with your hardware
CellCount runs on any brand of microscope, camera and counting chamber, including the ones a lab already has. Equipment we offer, on our own or with partners, is there to make getting started easier.
Works with your consumables
Count in the chambers and slides you already buy, from whichever supplier the lab prefers. Switching brands does not mean switching how you count.
Easy from the first count
Counting cells should not take a manual, a training day or a call to an expert. We design for the person at the bench, so getting started feels obvious, and so does every count after it.
The people you will talk to.
Most labs start with a call and a demo on their own samples, with one of us.
Oslo, Norway
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The legal entity
Vitr is our brand. The company is Lowkey Vision AS.
Lowkey Vision ASGaustadalléen 21
0349 Oslo, Norway
Every agreement, the Terms of Service and the Privacy Notice name Lowkey Vision AS. The rename is a brand, not a change of counterparty.