>95%
viability after enrichment
96
samples per run
$10
per sample, instead of $100+
3
hands-on steps for 96 samples
- Two ways to run it
LeviCell 96 System or LeviCell 96 Pro
LeviCell 96 System
The complete platform: the SALT™ 96-well levitation array together with an INTEGRA liquid handler, installed, validated and supported as one system. The fastest route to walkaway sample prep for labs that do not yet run SBS robotics.
LeviCell 96 Pro
The SALT™ 96-well levitation array and reagents on their own, for labs that already run SBS-compatible liquid handling. Drop the array into a standard deck position and run the LeviCell protocols on the robot you already own.
- The bottleneck
Sample prep is the last manual step between your robot and your data
Sequencing, cytometry and imaging have scaled. Sample prep has not. Centrifuges, filters and bead cleanups still need hands, add stress to cells and change from operator to operator. That variability ends up in your datasets as noise and batch effects, and it becomes the ceiling on how many samples you can run.
The LeviCell 96 replaces those steps with Levitation Technology™ on a 96-well SBS plate, so the whole prep can run on a liquid handler with your team off the pipette.
- One automated workflow
Eight steps, one deck, no centrifuge
Enrich
Separate viable cells or nuclei from dead cells and debris by levitation.
Wash
Run sequential buffer exchanges in the well, with no centrifuge spins.
Pellet
Levitation gathers viable cells into a tight pellet above dead cells and debris, with no centrifuge.
Image
LeviCell Insight, our standalone brightfield imager, images every well of the array at once in about five minutes.
Analyze
Check cell health, aggregation and purity in every well from the LeviCell Insight images before you commit downstream.
Collect
Aspirate the fraction of interest and leave the waste behind.
Pool
Combine wells or replicates on the deck to fit your study design.
Concentrate
Elute in small volumes, ready for loading into downstream assays.
- Built for automation
Designed for the robot deck
The proprietary Selective Arrayed Levitation Technology (SALT™) array runs 96 levitation reactions at once in a SLAS/SBS 96-well ANSI footprint. It sits in a standard deck position next to your tips, input plate and output plate.
- Scripted protocols: viable cell enrichment, cell washing and nuclei workflows run as programs on the liquid handler
- Walkaway runs: load the plate, start the program and come back to samples ready for counting and downstream use
- No extra devices: no centrifuge, filters, magnetic beads, labels or microfluidics to integrate
- Well-to-well consistency: identical processing in every well removes manual variability
- Data at scale
Model-ready data, sample after sample
Large models of cell biology, such as virtual cell models, perturbation atlases and foundation-scale single-cell and organoid datasets, are only as good as the samples behind them. The LeviCell 96 System produces inputs that are clean, consistent and documented across thousands of samples.
- High fidelity: more than 95% viability with debris removed, so less noise and ambient signal downstream
- Unbiased: no stains, markers, high pressure or shear, and activation and expression states are maintained
- Reproducible: identical, scripted processing in every well delivers more than 95% viability run after run
- Affordable at scale: about $10 per sample instead of more than $100
LeviCell 96 System vs. standard methods
Faster, higher-yield and fully automated, without the limits of centrifugation and filtration.
| Feature | LeviCell 96 System | Centrifugation and filtration |
|---|---|---|
| Time to enriched cells | 45 minutes | Several hours |
| Levitation time | 40 minutes | Not applicable |
| Hands-on time | 5 minutes | Labor-intensive |
| Hands-on steps | 3 | Many |
| Cell viability | >95% | Lower, due to mechanical stress |
| Debris removal | 60% | Varies |
| Viable cell yield | Up to 5X more than centrifugation and filtration | Baseline, reduced by cell loss at every spin |
| Automation | Fully automated | Manual steps required |
| Robotics format | Standard SBS / ANSI 96-well | Centrifuge integration needed |
| Label-free | Yes | No |
What changes on your bench
5X
more viable cells than centrifugation and filtration
- 5X more viable cells than centrifugation and filtration
- 10X less myelin and debris
- >99% targeted cell removal
96
samples in parallel, 45 minutes to enriched cells
- Cell washing
- Sample enrichment
- Debris removal
$10
per sample, instead of $100+
- $10 vs >$100
- 45 min to enriched cells
- Walkaway automation
The LeviCell 96 System turns slow, inconsistent manual workflows into a streamlined, automated process. It delivers high-purity results that speed up discovery and scale to the dataset sizes that large models need.
Key applications
This fully automated system is flexible and reproducible across many workflows, because Levitation Technology adapts to each application.
Flow cytometry
- Pre-sort viability enrichment
- Cell washing
CITE-seq and antibody workflows
- Pre-encapsulation viability enrichment
- Centrifuge-free washes for CITE-seq and CUT&Tag
scRNA-seq and snRNA-seq
- Pre-encapsulation viability enrichment
- Nuclei clean-up and washing
LeviCell 96 System performance
The LeviCell 96 System takes 96 samples from loading to enriched cells in 45 minutes, with 5 minutes hands-on.
>95%
viability after enrichment
5X
more viable cells than centrifugation and filtration
45 min
to enrich 96 samples: 5 min hands-on, 40 min of levitation
Application example: live cell enrichment
>50%
yield
>95%
viability
60%
debris removal
5 min
hands-on time
Three hands-on steps per 96 wells: 5 minutes hands-on, 40 minutes of levitation, 45 minutes to enriched cells.
Application example: PBMC cell washing for cytometry
>70%
yield
>95%
viability
Yes
debris removal, with subpopulations maintained
5 min
hands-on time
Three hands-on steps per 96 wells: 5 minutes hands-on, 40 minutes of levitation, 45 minutes to washed cells.
- LeviCell 96 System (SALT array with INTEGRA liquid handler), 1-year warranty PN 1000060
- LeviCell 96 Pro (SALT array for your own SBS robotics): ask us for a quote
- LeviCell Insight imaging system: ask us for a quote
- LeviCell 96 Complete Enrichment Kit (10 runs) PN 1002201
- LeviCell 96 Complete Cell Washing Kit (10 runs) PN 1002202
- LeviCell 96 Extended Service Plan, 1 Year Coverage PN 1110025
- LeviCell 96 Extended Service Plan, 2 Year Coverage PN 1110026
- LeviCell 96 Extended Service Plan, 3 Year Coverage PN 1110027