Built for the Way Modern Labs Work

Rayo is designed to operate directly inside modern laboratory workflows and allows your lab to:

Eliminate workflow interruptions caused by plate transfers

Measure cultures directly within automated workflows

Capture higher-resolution growth data with frequent measurements

Accelerate experimental iteration during culture optimization

Normalize cultures quickly using rapid density measurements

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Eliminate Plate Transfers

When your lab is optimizing cell cultures, you repeatedly measure, analyze, and adjust experimental conditions. You may be evaluating how variables such as media composition, environmental conditions, cell density, or microbial strain performance influence culture growth and productivity.

Microplate readers allow your team to convert biological behavior into quantifiable datasets through optical density measurements across microplates. This enables you to monitor culture growth, generate growth curves, and compare culture performance across experimental conditions.

However, in many laboratories measurement systems are physically separated from the culture environment. This requires researchers to move plates between incubators, automation platforms, and centralized readers which introduces workflow interruptions and experimental variability that can slow optimization cycles.

Eliminate Plate Transfers

When your lab is optimizing cell cultures, you repeatedly measure, analyze, and adjust experimental conditions. You may be evaluating how variables such as media composition, environmental conditions, cell density, or microbial strain performance influence culture growth and productivity.

Microplate readers allow your team to convert biological behavior into quantifiable datasets through optical density measurements across microplates. This enables you to monitor culture growth, generate growth curves, and compare culture performance across experimental conditions.

However, in many laboratories measurement systems are physically separated from the culture environment. This requires researchers to move plates between incubators, automation platforms, and centralized readers which introduces workflow interruptions and experimental variability that can slow optimization cycles.

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Generate Reliable Growth Curves

By measuring optical density over time, your lab can analyze:

Growth rate differences between strains
Lag phase adaptation to media or environmental conditions
Culture yield and maximum density
Interaction dynamics in co-cultures

Growth curves typically include three phases:

Lag Phase - Cells adapt before active division begins

Exponential Phase - Cells divide rapidly and growth differences emerge

Stationary Phase - Growth slows as nutrients become limited

Frequent measurements allow your lab to generate higher-resolution growth curves and make more confident optimization decisions.

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The Optimization Cycle Driving Cell Culture Experiments

Cell culture optimization follows an iterative experimental cycle.

Measure → Analyze → Optimize → Repeat

The faster your lab can measure culture performance, the faster you can refine experimental conditions and improve outcomes.

Rayo Brings Growth Measurement Closer to the Biology

Traditional microplate readers are large benchtop instruments typically located away from incubation environments or automation platforms. As a result, your team must manually transfer plates for measurement. These transfers disrupt experimental conditions and slow your workflow.

Rayo is designed to help your lab measure cultures closer to where the biology happens.

Its compact architecture allows the instrument to be placed:

on liquid-handling automation decks
inside anaerobic chambers
within controlled laboratory environments

This allows your team to measure cultures while maintaining environmental stability and reducing handling steps.

Solving the Challenges of Traditional Growth Measurement Workflows

Challenge: Plate Transfers Disrupt Experimental Conditions

Impact

In traditional workflows, plates must be removed from incubators or controlled environments and carried to a benchtop reader for measurement. These transfers can temporarily alter temperature, atmospheric conditions, or anaerobic stability, and potentially affects culture behavior.

Rayo Solution

Rayo’s compact architecture allows the instrument to be placed closer to the experimental environment, including inside anaerobic chambers or controlled laboratory spaces. This allows cultures to be measured while maintaining environmental stability.

Challenge: Centralized Instruments Interrupt Workflow Efficiency

Impact

Traditional microplate readers are often located away from incubators or automation platforms. Researchers must repeatedly pause experiments to move plates for measurement, adding manual steps and slowing overall experimental workflows.

Rayo Solution

Rayo can be placed directly on liquid-handling automation decks or within localized experimental setups. Measurement becomes part of the workflow rather than an interruption.

Challenge: Slower Optimization Cycles

Impact

Cell culture optimization requires repeated measurement, analysis, and adjustment. When measurements require manual transfers and workflow interruptions, each experimental cycle takes longer to complete.

Rayo Solution

By enabling measurement closer to where cultures grow, Rayo reduces workflow disruptions and supports faster experimental iteration.

Built for Modern Cell Culture Optimization

Modern cell culture optimization increasingly relies on automation, high-frequency measurements, and integrated laboratory systems.

With Rayo, your lab can:

Integrate measurement directly into experimental workflows

Generate higher-resolution growth datasets

Accelerate experimental iteration cycles

Improve reproducibility during culture optimization

With its compact, automation-ready design, Rayo enables researchers to integrate measurement directly into experimental workflows, supporting more efficient and reproducible culture optimization studies. Rayo helps your team measure cultures where your biology happens.

Traditional Readers

Centralized benchtop systems
Frequent manual transfers
Conditions change during transfer
Limited by handling
Lower temporal resolution
Difficult integration
Slower feedback cycles

Rayo

Built for the Modern lab

Integrated within workflows
Minimal plate movement
Measurements occur near cultures
Frequent measurements
Higher-resolution kinetic data
Designed for automation decks
Faster optimization cycles

Measure Where Your

Built for the Way Modern Labs Work

Rayo is designed to operate directly inside modern laboratory workflows and allows your lab to:

When your lab is optimizing cell cultures, you repeatedly measure, analyze, and adjust experimental conditions. You may be evaluating how variables such as media composition, environmental conditions, cell density, or microbial strain performance influence culture growth and productivity.

Microplate readers allow your team to convert biological behavior into quantifiable datasets through optical density measurements across microplates. This enables you to monitor culture growth, generate growth curves, and compare culture performance across experimental conditions.

When your lab is optimizing cell cultures, you repeatedly measure, analyze, and adjust experimental conditions. You may be evaluating how variables such as media composition, environmental conditions, cell density, or microbial strain performance influence culture growth and productivity.

Microplate readers allow your team to convert biological behavior into quantifiable datasets through optical density measurements across microplates. This enables you to monitor culture growth, generate growth curves, and compare culture performance across experimental conditions.

By measuring optical density over time, your lab can analyze:

Growth rate differences between strains

Lag phase adaptation to media or environmental conditions

Culture yield and maximum density

Interaction dynamics in co-cultures

Growth curves typically include three phases:

Lag Phase - Cells adapt before active division begins

Exponential Phase - Cells divide rapidly and growth differences emerge

Stationary Phase - Growth slows as nutrients become limited

Frequent measurements allow your lab to generate higher-resolution growth curves and make more confident optimization decisions.

Cell culture optimization follows an iterative experimental cycle.

Measure → Analyze → Optimize → Repeat

The faster your lab can measure culture performance, the faster you can refine experimental conditions and improve outcomes.

Rayo Brings Growth Measurement Closer to the Biology

Traditional microplate readers are large benchtop instruments typically located away from incubation environments or automation platforms. As a result, your team must manually transfer plates for measurement. These transfers disrupt experimental conditions and slow your workflow.

Rayo is designed to help your lab measure cultures closer to where the biology happens.

Its compact architecture allows the instrument to be placed:

on liquid-handling automation decks

inside anaerobic chambers

within controlled laboratory environments

This allows your team to measure cultures while maintaining environmental stability and reducing handling steps.

Solving the Challenges of Traditional Growth Measurement Workflows

Impact

In traditional workflows, plates must be removed from incubators or controlled environments and carried to a benchtop reader for measurement. These transfers can temporarily alter temperature, atmospheric conditions, or anaerobic stability, and potentially affects culture behavior.

Rayo Solution

Rayo’s compact architecture allows the instrument to be placed closer to the experimental environment, including inside anaerobic chambers or controlled laboratory spaces. This allows cultures to be measured while maintaining environmental stability.

Impact

Traditional microplate readers are often located away from incubators or automation platforms. Researchers must repeatedly pause experiments to move plates for measurement, adding manual steps and slowing overall experimental workflows.

Rayo Solution

Rayo can be placed directly on liquid-handling automation decks or within localized experimental setups. Measurement becomes part of the workflow rather than an interruption.

Impact

Cell culture optimization requires repeated measurement, analysis, and adjustment. When measurements require manual transfers and workflow interruptions, each experimental cycle takes longer to complete.

Rayo Solution

By enabling measurement closer to where cultures grow, Rayo reduces workflow disruptions and supports faster experimental iteration.

Built for Modern Cell Culture Optimization

Modern cell culture optimization increasingly relies on automation, high-frequency measurements, and integrated laboratory systems.With Rayo, your lab can:

Integrate measurement directly into experimental workflows

Generate higher-resolution growth datasets

Accelerate experimental iteration cycles

Improve reproducibility during culture optimization

With its compact, automation-ready design, Rayo enables researchers to integrate measurement directly into experimental workflows, supporting more efficient and reproducible culture optimization studies. Rayo helps your team measure cultures where your biology happens.

Traditional Readers

Centralized benchtop systems

Frequent manual transfers

Conditions change during transfer

Limited by handling

Lower temporal resolution

Difficult integration

Slower feedback cycles

Rayo

Integrated within workflows

Minimal plate movement

Measurements occur near cultures

Frequent measurements

Higher-resolution kinetic data

Designed for automation decks

Faster optimization cycles

Modern cell culture optimization increasingly relies on automation, high-frequency measurements, and integrated laboratory systems.

With Rayo, your lab can: