Nanosurf AG

Cytomass Monitor

Measuring and monitoring the mass of living cells in real time

• Integrated solution

• Long-term viability and monitoring of cells

• Cell mass measurements allow groundbreaking discoveries

Cells tightly regulate their mass and volume during development and homeostasis. Though this regulation is fundamental to proper functioning of the cell, it is so far poorly understood, mainly because tools available thus far can only reasonably determine the volume of spherical suspended cells (~1% population accuracy, ~20% single cell accuracy), not their mass and not under normal adherent growth conditions.

Together with Prof. Daniel J. Müller and Dr. David Martínez-Martín of the ETH Zürich, Nanosurf is developing the Cytomass Monitor. The Cytomass Monitor is able to measure the mass of even single adherent cells with 0.1% mass and 10‑ms temporal resolution.