Automatic Cell Counting in the Palm of Your Hand
Better brewing | Counting yeast cells is one of the more tedious and repetitive tasks in the beer industry. It requires either a skilled professional to perform a manual count with a microscope and a hemocytometer or an expensive piece of equipment – or both. Challenges exist in this process, even for professionals performing a good cell count. Did I count that cell? Is that daughter cell 50 per cent the size of the mother cell or less? Should I count that blueish cell as alive or dead?