LUNA™ Family of Automated Cell Counters by Logos Biosystems

"I have never expected such extremely high quality with such relatively low price. What amazes me is the fact that products made by other manufacturers are far behind Luna automatic cell counter. I have been looking for some time for a device which would meet my expectations and luckily I was recommended to check Luna. It’s unbelievable how much can you get for so little. It is so easy to use, the touchscreen serves a clear and user friendly menu. For the case of making protocols, you could get a high-resolution photograph of counted cells. Luna itself is so small and I am wondering how the manufacturer was able to produce such powerful tool packed in such a very compact device. Both me and other co-workers are amazed and before choosing Luna we were testing 5 other devices. After a few minutes of testing Luna, we all agreed that we found what we have been looking for."

"High quality performance of this machine. I strongly recommend it."

"Easy to use and navigate"

"Very effective, Easy to use, Quick results"

"The instrument is super easy to use also with very complex and heterogeneous samples. We use it to check the quality of samples that were then used in a single-cell workflow experiment. Really useful also to check nuclei isolated from frozen samples or count difficult types of samples as hepatocytes, known to cluster in small groups. the use of the Luna FX7 increased the performance of our single-cell experiment and allowed us to develop a new protocol for the isolation of different types of cells."

"The Luna II was easy to set up and use. The touch screen is very smooth and data saving option is great."

"LUNA II is very great. We use it for hybridoma and hek cells counting. It is very easy to use and provides fast and documented results that are essential for us."

"Very easy to use and quick to retrieve viability data."

"This is super easy to use when we count our cells in the lab. We work with primary human hepatocytes, and we get accurate reproducible cell counts. This is a staple within our lab space!"

"Cell counting has now become a very easy task due to LUNA's cell counting machine!!"

"Super easy to use. I get consistent, accurate counts every time!"

"LUNAII Automated Cell Counter is easy to use. It is fast and it makes work in the laboratory easier. You can save protocols for counts with different cells."

"This is the simplest cell counter I have used. The paired sample cells make replication simple. I love the built in thermal printer."

"The results are extremely consistent when reading same samples multiple times, which is something equipment from rival companies lack after our comparison trial. If anything calibration seems slightly higher when compared with manual counting, but that is not a problem as reliability is what we were looking for."

"The cell counter is very easy to use and requires nearly no introduction. The counting is very quick and gives precise and reproducible results."

"I often have to count multiple cell lines for my flow cytometry experiments. The Luna Cell Counter II allows me to do this rapidly saving me precious time. On top of that, counts are reproducible and you have the ability to manually check whether counting was performed correctly. It requires you to go through the user manual and adjust counting parameters based on your cells but once you have the protocol set up it is so easy to use."

"It it an awesome machine easy to use, results in no more than 10 seconds cell count, viability, size distribution and morphology, save significant amount of time!"

"The cell counter is small yet able to provide accurate results! Straightforward application and less maintenance. Highly recommended."

"Small and friendly user. Service by the salesperson is excellent."

"Highly recommend! The size of LUNA II is small, so it can save the space of lab. The cell counting slides are well designed, very easy to use, give accurate results and save so much time we used to spend manually counting cells. Working protocol is simple so it is not time-consuming and easy to handle. Officially a fan now "

"The equipment is simple to use and can save a lot of time in doing research work. We used this for teaching class also."

"This product is very easy to use, and it and makes life much easier even just in the daily activities with cells. It's a product that saves a lot of time."

"Best product I have used so far for cell counting! Very convenient to use. I saved a lot of time using this, instead of counting the old school way."

"This product consistently works well, and is easy to use. Very simple to teach new employees how to use. The LUNA-FL at my lab is used dozens of times a day and continues to produce fast and reliable results. Can't live without it!"

"Easy to operate and very simple handling device. Accuracy meet our criteria, useful for manufacturing scale also."

"The Luna II is very easy to use. The touch screen is intuitive and the contact is very simple. Very precise device."

"I and my colleagues love having the Luna-FL in our lab. Great little machine that makes keeping cultures of various cell lines breeze. Straightforward to use and accurate."

"Easy to use, automated focus is not good, we still have to focus manually."

"We have been using this cell counter for two years now, and have achieved very reproducible results. In our hands, the most critical step is to adjust the expected cell size in the protocol so that all cells are recognized and counted. The counting chambers are easy to use, and staining with for example Trypan Blue works very well, too. Overall, using this product has made our work a lot faster and easier."

"LUNA-II is compact, immediate to install and use! I cannot imagine my lab life without it anymore! Results in no more than 10 seconds and not only cell count but also viability, size distribution and morphology."

"The counter is user friendly, fast and accurate. Saves time when you can count your GFP activated cells instead of FACSing them."

"Easy to use and produce good data reports. I like the ability to store images together. Is there a device that can measure the cell survival rate by concentration?"

"Easy to use, lots of additional data, and above all, vast time savings. We love the Luna machine in our lab."

"It's a nice machine easy to use and with the 8 count per slide you win a lot of time compare to the other machine with 2 counting per slide. The accuracy of the machine is almost the same that you can have on FACS machine."

"Really nice device that enables you to automatize your cell counting. Perfect for time saving but also in term of reproducibility (no differences between users compare to manual counting). The AO/PI mix used with the Luna-FL is perfect to count primary cells."

"Easy to use but the calibration slides are too expensive and short in expiry ."

"Robust equipment which provides fast and reliable results for our lab`s daily needs. Extremely satisfied with its performance. Great device and easy to use."

"Super useful to have in a lab! Easy to use, providing reliable results and saving time!"

"We already have the Luna I in house and it is just a time safer. You simply insert the cartridge with 10µl of your cells and get your result after seconds. If you handle more than 2 cell lines it is just awesome to have it. But now we order the Luna II and this has the advantage that you can also count primary cells and you can still use the cartridges of the Luna I."

"The equipment is easy to use, reliable and relatively fast. In any case, automation is welcome in experiments."

"Terrific piece of equipment which has been produced quality results, shortened our experimental time and quickly become an essential instrument for all lab members."

"It it an awesome machine to have in lab. Hassle free cell counts, save significant amount of time."

"Results are saved and reproduceable. Very easy to use and doesn't require much training."

"One device that can not only count standard cell lines, it can also count primary cells which makes it to the absolute time saver. I already tested the luna automated cell counter for years but the luna II is the next big thing."

"Very easy to use with reproducible results!"

"The LUNA-FX7™ Automated Cell Counter is user friendly and gave accurate results. The service engineers is friendly and knowledgeable. Good experience on the on-site training. Good value for money."

"Very easy to use. A lot of time saved when you have to count a lot of cells. Very fast and reliable results."

"Luna II is very intuitive and easy to use. It counts your cells in just a few seconds and it is very reliable when compared to other methods."

"This product is very effective and easy to use. I love using it to determine viability and count cells. I have had no problems with this product. I highly recommend it to everyone who needs to count cells."

"Quick and efficient method to count cells! The design of the instrument and protocol are simple to follow and leave room for minimal error. Fixes any issues with sticky cells that are difficult to count on other brands of cell counters. We love our Luna!"

"Easy to use and really fast ! Disposable plates are really pratical for contaminated cells (with bacteria for example) !"

"I was truly happy when our company decided to go with the Luna II counter. Before we used a older system that ended up taking a decent amount of time and the slides were messy. I love that the Luna slides have a well so the liquid stays in the slide. I absolutely love that it automatically counts all the frames for you. Again we would manually have to choose frames to count and it can be time consuming. I would encourage the end user to do the demo to fully understand how the machine works and if it the right fit. However, it is extremely easy to use as long as you keep track and enter in the proper title for the counts for organization on the excel file. Great product."

"The LUNA-FL is very easy to use and gives reproducible results for cell counting, especially for the "difficult" single cell suspensions, prepared from fresh tumor tissue. Here, the use of the LUNA-FL is crucial for counting as it can distinguish very well between live cells / dead cells and cell debris. For all our applications (e.g. organoid seeding), an accurate cell count is essential. Also, I like the tagging option to analyze the cell count as well as the possibility to save the data on a USB stick for later."

"Fast and easy to use"

"The cell counter is extremely easy to use. There is an option for reusable counting slides which can lower the cost of required consumables. The "tag" feature for tagging the live and dead cells counted is helpful in determining the accuracy of each count and the ability to gate the cell size is brilliant when you are dealing with background debris. It fast, has a small footprint and data can be collected on a USB."

"I have been using this LUNA counter for one year, it’s simple and easy. it comes with the reagents. The accuracy of the cell count is very important with the viability of cells. It is easy for multiplex samples."

"Precise counts. They AO/PI dye mix doesn't stain debris, thus allowing accurate viable cell count which is a prerequisite for single cell analysis. We have been using it in the lab extensively and are happy with the results, we've recently ordered our second machine."

"The cell counter is easy to use and saves time especially when you have numerous samples. The machine is accurate and the results are reproducible. Slides are a bot expensive but absolutely worth it. you can get reusable slides for cost saving. Can do multiple cell types and methods of counting."

"The LUNA II automated cell counter is an user-friendly, highly accurate and very compact instrument recently installed in our department. In most of my experiment, I use this instrument in critical cell counting step which has major impact on test results. Using this cell counter, I regularly ended up with accurate and repeatable test results. I highly recommend this instrument in both R and D, clinical research, industrial and pathology laboratory."

"We achieve high quality result, and quick. It's easy to use, easy to see. It's value for money because slides is cheaper than others. So fashionable color!!"

"Fast and user friendly"

"This cell counter is very easy to use. It gives fast and accurate counting results. Has both brightfield and fluorescence counting which becomes very useful when working with transfections."

"This product is easy to use. The slides are disposable, which is very fast and convenient. I have never had any issues with these slides. The company sent them very fast, and updated my order every step of the way! Thank you!"

"I was able to obtain good agreement between the PI channel of the Luna FL and my own manual haemocytometer counting of nuclei stained with DAPI at a fraction of the time. One caveat would be false 'viability' given from background staining of AO on tissue debris but it could be useful in determining the level of debris from the isolation."

"The Luna was easy to use, results were reproducible. The save image feature worked very well for separating counts for various groups, making it easier to organize data in excel."

"This system is effective in counting cells/mL for Protozoa cells dyed with trypan blue. Images can be saved and reviewed for manual counts. This gives the user a good idea of how to experiment with parameter specifications for even more accuracy. The cell count data excel file needs to be labeled properly by the user in order to effectively analyze data quantitatively. The end user needs to demo the system and figure this out on their own. An overall great system for quick accurate counts at cost."

"Excellent device, produces reliable cell counts and saves you a lot of time with a good workflow."

"Other cell counters (trypan blue method) sometimes detected debris, but Luna fL can use AO/PI, so it does not detect debris. The reproducibility of the AO/PI method is high, which is very useful for experiments. It would be great if there was autofocus, as it would be troublesome to manually focus each cell count."

"I am using this machine since 2017, and now, I am at another university and purchased this again because I simply trust it. In addition it has better options like gating cells and its lower limit of detection is 3 micrometers which is one of my attractions to it. I will try to make its use for platelet count, If I am successful will let you know."

"I think Luna Cell counter is the best help in a lab: easy to use and without any type of error! It's very important to use accurate instrument working in a lab and Cell Counter confirm your expectations!"

"It's a really nice product that enables you to automatize your cell counting in no time, and that is extremely easy to setup and useful for saving time during your experiments"

"Good value on money, time saving and ease to use. Saves both time and money"

"Easy, fast and very precise!!"

"The machine gives an easy and fast way for cell counting. The cell number is accurate and reproducible, and the price of the machine and slide are cheap."

"This equipment makes us easy and fast work. The accuracy is higher than manual cell counting."

"The size of machine is small, so it can save the space of laboratory. Working protocol is simple so it is not time-consuming and easy to handle."

"Luna cell counter is quick and efficient. Makes cell counting easy. Use for counting cells in tissue samples as well as tissue culture."

"This product is a lot of easy to use"

"Easy to use and accurate cell counts from homogenized tissue samples."

"Our core relies heavily on the Luna II cell counter. It’s quick and easy to use, and I know it will give me an accurate count, especially since it has multi-channels to use at one time."

"Some of the biggest concerns I had doing cell culture were the cell counting unreliability and error-prone human dependency. Also doing and redoing counting using a tick-counter and neubauer chamber in hurry is problematic. This LUNA-II counter is exact answer to those problems and makes my job easier!"

"The product is effective and accurate for counting. This product is really easy to use and saves our lab so much time counting cells! Many times, we count cells from tissues and have over 50 samples to count which would take forever manually."

"The counter is well-designed and simple to use. Compared to my previous counter, it performs better and more accurate. Highly recommended!"

"East to use. Speeds-up multiple sample processing. But the disposoble slides are pricy."

"I was using a hemocytometer to count cells from patient fluid samples. This device saves me so much time and provides a precise and accurate cell count, including live and dead cells. It can even be programmed to count big and small cells, which is especially useful for processing tumor samples."

"It's a great tool for counting cells in a suspension. In contrast to old counting methods such as the Neubauer method, this product facilitates the counting around world. Counting can be done faster, and more accurately and the operation is straightforward and therefore easy to use. The only disadvantage is, that it's a little expensive. But the high throughput is definitely recommended and worth the money."

"Many people are using cell culture in the lab from highly experimented technicians to new trainees. Errors were often made in the way to count cells and time was wasted. Thanks to the Luna II we can now count effectively, rapidly, and reproducibly our cells to get more reproducible results between two experimenters and we win time to have more coffee breaks between colleagues ;)"

"Great product! Easy to use and very reliable device."

"After I started using Luna, other cell counters were just not as good. It is simple, easy, and very reliable. We usually count different types of cells like tumor cells or cells in co-culture and our results are always reproducible. Luna is a must-have piece of equipment in our lab!!"

"Nice too to count immune cells and cell line. Brightfield and fluorescence available!"

"Great product! Easy to use and very accurate. Saves a lot of time!"

"It is a very easy and user-friendly instrument for cell counting. It gives you lots of information and you can also calculate the volume you need given a cell concentration. Great service and easy to use product."

"Easy to use. Like the function that we can save data. One can review previous data."

"Easy to use. Reproducible results that provide detailed report."